Maya Angela wrote and said so many quotable things, it's hard to pick a favorite,

but one that has been echoing in my ears lately is this.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

We've started reposting some of our favorite episodes of what it takes from time to time.

For today's second listen, we bring you Maya Angelo.

The episode originally posted in December of 2016.

Her stories, her insights, and her powerful voice

make us miss her even more today. I grew up in a town in Arkansas smaller than the exposed part of this stage.

And I was small and strange because I stopped talking from the time I was 7.5 until I was 12.5.

The cadence is unmistakable.

It only takes a few words to know when you're listening to the voice of

Maya Angelo.

I was known to be weird, but black Americans didn't call me weird.

People would see me in the road.

My grandmother owned most of the land behind the town,

most of the land the poor whites lived on, most of the

land the blacks lived on, and the only black-owned store in the town. And so people

had many reasons to be angry with mama since mama was severe.

So people disliked my grandmother. I understand that.

They'd see me in the street and say,

mm-mm, it's a shame sister Henderson's California granddaughter,

done gone mental.

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