“You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.”

— Maya Angelou · Wisdom quote

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been. — Maya Angelou quote card
Poet, memoirist · 1928 – 2014

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

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