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Maya Angelou 247
American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes

“There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.”

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
Context: That, on the whole, if you have got the intrinsic qualities, you have got everything, and the preliminaries will prove attainable; but that if you have got only the preliminaries, you have yet got nothing. A man of real dignity will not find it impossible to bear himself in a dignified manner; a man of real understanding and insight will get to know, as the fruit of his very first study, what the laws of his situation are, and will conform to these.
"Say It Again" from N.B. and Pocketful of Sunshine (2007)

Said to the Mayor of Waltham Forest who uses a mobility scooter, as quoted in "Duke of Edinburgh has fun with mobility scooter jokes on London visit" http://www.metro.co.uk/news/894691-duke-of-edinburgh-has-fun-with-mobility-scooter-jokes-on-london-visit, Metro (29 March 2012)