Quote by Maya Angelou
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. – Maya Angelou

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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally. – Maya Angelou

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My life has been one great big joke, a dance thats walked a song thats spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. – Maya Angelou

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – Toni Morrison

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You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. – William Lloyd Garrison

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