Maya Angelou Quotes – Love and Inspirational Famous Life Quotes

“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time” – Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou’s famous quotes on love, courage, success, attitude, achievement and life are amongst the most popular inspirational quotes today. Angelou is a strong and inspiring woman, poet, author, actress and civil rights activist. Maya Angelou’s quotes, poems and famous sayings provide women and girls inspiring words of wisdom to live by.

Born Marguerite Ann Johnson in 1928, Maya Angelou is best known for her portrayals of strong African American women in her numerous writings. Angelou published her first widely-acclaimed autobiographical book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” in 1970.
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Still I Rise Poem by Maya Angelou

Still I RiseMaya Angelou is probably my favorite poet of all time, and her famous poem entitled Still I Rise may very well be my favorite poem by Maya Angelou, over and above all other poems. The Do It Anyway poem posted the other day is another one of my favorites, probably because poems like Still I Rise and Do It Anyway express in words and tone my way of thinking and feeling about life and adversities that don’t include the more “colorful language” that would inevitably rise up out of my mouth in certain situations.

For example, Grandpa forwarded an email video clip of a song entitled “I’m About to Whip Somebody’s Ass” to me a few days ago, and after listening to the little song clip and viewing the cartoon character singing the little ditty, we shared a good laugh together simply because of the comical and oh-so colorful song title. Too funny. The song is on Youtube if you’re interested.
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