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Maya Angelou was an American author, poet, playwright, actress, and lecturer, known for her profound exploration of race, gender, and culture in her work. Her autobiographical works, including 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' which detailed her early life of poverty and sexual exploitation, have gained widespread acclaim.

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“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.”

Thinking Knows Trying Walks Deserve Deserve Better

Author:Maya Angelou

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

Inspirational Trying Inspiring Compassion Successful Relationship Clouds Love Life Rainbow Black Women Phenomenal Woman You Make Me Happy

Book:Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.”

Trying Believe Long Has Beens Stills Sometimes Inspiring Thoughtful Love Life Daring Loving Life Trembling Liver

Book:Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.”

Thinking Trying Illness Cures Wisest

Author:Maya Angelou

“In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'”

Trying May Given Why Not Dozen Load Pie Sour Lemons Lemon Juice

Author:Maya Angelou

“You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”

Inspirational Trying Inspiring Powerful Heard Influence Self Esteem Positive Positivity Positive Experiences

Author:Maya Angelou

“I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.”

Trying Christian Mother Serious Lovers Jew Buddhist Good Friend Buddy Good Mother Serious Business Good Lovers Good Buddhist

Author:Maya Angelou

“Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.”

Trying Responsibility Alive Creation Areas Creator Debt Comprehension

Author:Maya Angelou

“The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.”

People Knows Trying Firsts Wells I Can Inspiring Lord Morning Alive Grateful Telling The Truth Saying Thank You Thank You Lord Grateful To Be Alive

Author:Maya Angelou

“Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.”

Way Trying Years Virtue Regret Useless Live Your Life Inertia Timidity

Author:Maya Angelou

About the Author

Born: April 4, 1928
Died: May 28, 2014
Known for: Author
Quotes: 1180

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I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsRelated source material

Letter to My DaughterRelated source material

The Collected Autobiographies of Maya AngelouRelated source material

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey NowRelated source material

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The Complete PoetryRelated source material

The Heart of a WomanRelated source material

Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya AngelouRelated source material

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like ChristmasRelated source material

A Song Flung Up to HeavenRelated source material

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