Below, you'll find some of Maya Angelou's best quotes about life ... “Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.” ...

I've had people overlook me because I was a woman.” She then ended the speech by reciting an extract from Still I Rise, crediting it to “my favourite poet, Maya Angelou." When he decided to ...

From being abandoned by her parents at just four years old to becoming one of the 20th Century’s most iconic figures, Maya Angelou lived ... Here are ten inspiring quotes from the person Barack ...

On what would have been the writer and activist’s 90th birthday, we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...