"We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world."
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early a
"All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open."
"I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life."
"Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like Ive got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?"
"I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
"Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross and hatred is the ballast of the rock"
"We delight in the beauty of butterfly, rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty*"