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“My name had lost its ring of familiarity and I had to be nudged to go and receive my diploma.”

Work

Maya Angelou's memoir recounts her childhood in the American South during the 1930s and 1940s, highlighting her journey of self-discovery and the challenges she faced due to racial discrimination. The narrative delves into her experiences with poverty, abuse, and the search for her own identity, offering a poignant and inspiring look at the human spirit. more

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Maya Angelou

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. more

“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend their time like adults. They are more likely, instead, to act like children--not by being immature, necessarily, but by postponing the usual activities of adults. Adolescence is now an extension of childhood rather than the beginning of adulthood.”

Childhood Adolescence Immaturity Igen Delayed Adulthood

Book:iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

Source: iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in the world, that not every conceivable interest was centered in ourselves but that there existed another life - that of people who had nothing in common with us, cared nothing for us, had no idea of our existence even. I must have known all this before but I had not known it as I did now - I had not realized it; I had not felt it.”

Childhood Youth Boyhood Tolstoy

Book:Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

Source: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

“The proof of the pudding is in the Cosmic Ordering.”

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Book:Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

Source: Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

“I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon as I recapture the thread of my former reverie I find it impossible to go on with it and, most astonishing of all, my imaginings no longer afford me any pleasure.”

Childhood Youth Boyhood Tolstoy

Book:Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

Source: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth