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Maya Angelou Quotes

«She's my sister friend and I pray for her and her children. Everybody, please give a good thought, a positive thought for Coretta.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet)
«At the worst of times, there's the possibility of seeing hope, ... That's why that song is so important right now.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet)
«I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet)
«Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet)
«Her passion was never spent in public display.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet)
«Those of us who have gathered here, ... we owe something from this minute on, so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet)
«I want to see freedom and equality through my eyes and your eyes Coretta Scott King. I opened my mouth to the lord and I won't turn back, no!»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet)
«She cherished her race. She cherished women. She cared for gay and straight people. She prayed nightly for Palestine and equally for Israel.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet)
«The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health has a national conference every other year. This year the focus of our conference is on cardiovascular disease or heart disease and how to translate research into practice.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet)
«It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chance to look at her and see what she did and who she was. It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet)