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Nothing will work unless you do.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Maya Angelou

Opportunity

Girls

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Maya Angelou

God

Creation

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

Home

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.