AuthorMaya Angelou
DisciplinePoet
Born4 April 1928
Index References22 Quotes
Biography
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years.
Sylvia Plath
"Is there no way out of the mind?"
Kahlil Gibran"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."
Hunter S. Thompson"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"