Why does Maya Angelou inspire me?

Here are just twelve of Maya Angelou's most famous quotations and the inspirational life lessons that come from them… ... Angelou's message of enduring is inspiring and powerful; if we gave up at the first sign of trouble or at less-than-smooth sailing, we wouldn't achieve anything of value .... YES, Send Me My FREE Ebook. read more

After renaming herself Maya Angelou for the stage ("Maya" was a childhood nickname, "Angelou" a variation of her husband's name), she toured in "Porgy and Bess" and Jean Genet's "The Blacks" and danced with Alvin Ailey. read more

Maya Angelou is, in short, Angelou is telling us that we alone have the right and ability to control our lives and make them what we want to be. Fate and destiny are eons-old names for coincidence, rather than people having the agency to go out and change their lives on their back and of their own volition. read more

Maya Angelou in 2002 Dr Brooke Magnanti, who grew up in the American South and read Angelou's autobiography in school, agrees. She tells me: "Caged Bird is a story about a young woman who experienced sexual abuse, who had questions about her identity and her sexuality. read more