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Quotables
About Maya Angelou
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  Her
genius as a writer is her ability to recapture the texture of
the way of life in the texture of its idioms, its idiosyncractic
vocabulary, and especially in its process of image-making."
-- Sidonnie
Ann Smith
(Southern Humanities
Review, fall 1973)
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I
felt that this woman could have read the side of a cereal box.
Her presence was so powerful and momentous ... ."
-- Novelist
Louis Erdrich, after Angelou's inaugural presentation
(The Washington
Post, 1993)
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By Maya Angelou
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What
I would really like said about me is that I dared to love."
(USA Today,
March 1985)
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For
years I thought of my whole body as an ear."
Referring to
the years she spent in silence (Chicago Tribune, 1998)
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To
be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to
give one's own heart."
(Los Angeles
Times, 1993)
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Most
plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity
to be otherwise."
(In "I Know
Why the Caged Bird Sings")
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