At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
Maya Angelou

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Other quotes by Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.