Maya Angelou's Master Class Quotes
Living legend Dr. Maya Angelou offers abundant advice about the power of love and becoming who you are meant to be.
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Who You Really Are
"If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born—it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, '
Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning." — Dr. Maya Angelou
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Published 01/16/2011
