“I do my best because I’m counting on you counting on me. I must have done something great in another life.” - Maya Angelou “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” - Maya Angelou ![]() Phenomenal woman, that’s me.” - Maya Angelou 'If youre always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. ![]() “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” - Maya Angelou “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” - Maya Angelou Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.” - Maya Angelou It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. She is best known for her autobiographical books: All Gods. She is an author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist. “I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. “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.” - Maya Angelou At a very young age, she was sexually assaulted and she did not speak for 5 years. She learned to speak 6 different languages French, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, and Fante (a dialect of Akan native to Ghana). ![]() Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou was the first African-American woman to be a cable car conductor in San Francisco. “Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.” - Maya Angelou Among other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. “I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.” - Maya Angelou
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