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Maya Angelou on Women

1928–2014 United States

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

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maya Angelou (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.