Maya Angelou
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The official Twitter account for Dr. Maya Angelou. Poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, civil-rights activist, producer and director.
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
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"Let me remind all women that we live longer and better lives when we have sisters we love, not necessarily born in our bloodline or of our race. Sisters."
#MayaAngelou
@Oprah
💐 Happy Birthday!
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"Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs: the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.”
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“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
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"Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight."
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“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up - lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”
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"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women."
#MayaAngelou
🌍 Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
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"Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else."
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Today's
#GoogleDoodle
celebrates Dr. Maya Angelou's 90th birthday! Set to her poem
#StillIRise
, the video Doodle includes her own voice along with the voices of other individuals whose lives she has inspired. View the full experience here:
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"I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a
#woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me."
#MayaAngelou
💐 Happy
#WomensHistoryMonth
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I have a certain way of being in this world, and I shall not, I shall not be moved.
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"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
#MayaAngelou
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"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it."
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“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” -Maya Angelou. The Angelou Johnson Family.
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"So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.”
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"You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it."
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"You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it."
#MayaAngelou
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“Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.”
#MayaAngelou
Today we celebrate the birth, life, and legacy of Maya Angelou. Happy Birthday!
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"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
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"Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
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You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise."
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"Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you."
#MayaAngelou
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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." --
#MayaAngelou
http://t.co/7rks11m11C
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“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
#MayaAngelou
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
#happyacts
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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are."
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“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
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"Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs: the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.”
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“You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.”
#MayaAngelou
Justice will rise.
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"If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up - lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well."
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My wish for you is joy. When you wish someone joy, you wish peace, love, prosperity, health, happiness... all the good things.
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“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
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Our future is threatened by the robbing of these young women’s future. We must have our darlings back so that we can help them to heal.
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"A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself
and only herself.” -Maya Angelou
We welcome the 116th Congress, the most diverse in history with 127 women on both sides.
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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
— Maya Angelou
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“If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.”
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"Let me remind all women that we live longer and better lives when we have sisters we love, not necessarily born in our bloodline or of our race.
#MayaAngelou
#WomensMonth
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“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.”
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"What I really would like said about me is that I dared to love. By love, I mean that condition in the human spirit so profound it encourages us to develop courage and build bridges, and then to trust those bridges and cross the bridges in attempts to reach other human beings."
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The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me, because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today.
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"Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you."
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“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”
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“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
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I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.
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"Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs: the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.”
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"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
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"I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard."
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"Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs: the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.”
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"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."
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"Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else." -
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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
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"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet."
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"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."
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"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart."
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Surrounded by friends and family, I am 86 years young today! It is blessing. Thank you for your warm wishes.
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"It's the fire in my eyes,
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The swing in my waist,
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I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me."
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"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women."
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"Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else."
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"A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and herself only."
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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“What I really want to do is be a representative of my race, of the human race.”
@DrMayaAngelou
Join us Wednesday, April 17th as we watch and support this beautiful collaboration with Dr. Angelou's voice and
@Beyonce
's “Homecoming” special on
@netflix
An in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance from creative concept to cultural movement.
#beyoncehomecoming
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“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.”
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Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.
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“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”
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"And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed."
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"I would encourage us all, African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Whites, Native Americans to study history. I long for the time when all the human history is taught as one history.”
#MayaAngelou
Happy
#Indigenous
Peoples' Day! -The Angelou Johnson Family
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"Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you."
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are."
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love.
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"I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people."
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"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you."
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“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”
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"Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else."
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“My wish for you is joy. When you wish someone joy, you wish peace, love, prosperity, health, happiness... all the good things.”
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"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
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50 years ago
@SesameStreet
first aired! Over the years Dr. Angelou appeared on the show and we say congratulations!
#Sesame50
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“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.”
#MayaAngelou
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"There’s a marked difference between acquaintances and friends. Most people really don’t become friends. They become deep and serious acquaintances. But in a friendship you get to know the spirit of another person; and your values coincide."
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“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”
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"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” —
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“If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.”
#MayaAngelou
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“What I really want to do is be a representative of my race, of the human race...I know that when I finish doing what I’m sent here to do, I will be called home. And I will go home without any fear, trepidations, wondering what’s gonna happen.”
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"It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me."
#MayaAngelou
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"What I have always wanted is to be of use. I will not be abused. I will not be misused, not willingly. But I will be of use."
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“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
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“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
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"I say,
It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me."
#MayaAngelou
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"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet."
#MayaAngelou
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"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet."
#MayaAngelou
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“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
#MayaAngelou
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“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
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“You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.”
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There is no strength without adversity and no change without courage.
#StillIRise
#GoogleDoodle
#workingwithgoogle
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