“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

— Maya Angelou · Wisdom quote

— MAYA ANGELOU

Poet, memoirist · 1928 – 2014

American poet and memoirist best known for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).

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