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"When Maya Angelou passed away on Wednesday, the world lost not only a revered author and poet, but a guiding light for humanity.\nAngelou's ability to inspire will live on in her prolific thoughts, proverbs and works; her words could be compiled into a guidebook for leading a fulfilling, successful life.\nSee also: 32 Tweets of Wisdom From Maya Angelou\nThough the world is less wise with Angelou's departure, her wisdom will continue to serve as an inspiration.\n\n\nMaya Angelou Quotes\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable Composite Doug Mills/Associated Press.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable Composite Lawrence Jackson/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable Composite. Chuck Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable Composite Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable Composite Nell Redmond/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable Composite RNewsFoto/Forsyth Medical Center/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable Composite Jeff Daly/Invision/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable Composite Mary Altaffer/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable Composite Gerald Herbert/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable Composite Paul Morigi/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaya Angelou's Life in Photos\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerican writer and poet Maya Angelou in New York City, April 1994. \n\nImage: Michael Brennan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst Lady Michelle Obama and Maya Angelou on stage at BET Honors 2012 at the Warner Theatre on January 14, 2012 in Washington, DC.  \n\nImage: Paul Morigi/WireImage/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaya Angelou and Gloria Steinem on their way to the March on Washington on August 27, 1983 in Washington, DC.  \n\nImage: James M. Thresher/The Washington Post/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, embracing the poet Maya Angelou after a reading at his inauguration ceremony on January 20, 1993.\n\nImage: Arnold Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerican poet and author Maya Angelou gestures while speaking in a chair during an interview at her home on April 8th 1978.\n\nImage: Jack Sotomayor/New York Times Co/Getty Images)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Maya Angelou onstage at the Women 2 Women 2014 Inaugural Conference Luncheon at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on March 1, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. \n\nImage: Paras Griffin/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaya Angelou around the year 1970.\n\nImage: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerican poet Maya Angelou reciting her poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in Washington DC on January 20, 1993.\n\nImage: Consolidated News Pictures/Hulton Archive/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaya Angelou in her role as Nyo Boto in the series 'Roots'.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDemocratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and poet Maya Angelou, left, acknowledge the crowd during a campaign stop at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., April 18, 2008. \n\nImage: Chuck Burton/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaya Angelou, left, and Oprah Winfrey share laughs during a star-studded double-taping of \"Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular,\" on May 17, 2011, in Chicago. \n\nImage: Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSen. Edward M. Kennedy shown with three of this year's six women in the field of communications who received the thirteenth annual Matrix Award from the New York Chapter of Women in Communications, Inc. in New York on Monday, April 11, 1983. From left, the winners are: Jane Bryant Quinn, contributing editor, Newsweek and Woman's Day; Maya Angelou, author; and Mary McGrory, syndicated columnist, The Washington Post.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nU.S. first lady Betty Ford, third from right, poses with six other women who took part in the taping of the television special presentation of Ladies' Home Journal \"Woman of the Year 1976\" in New York City, April 8, 1976.  From left are, Betty Furness, Bettye Caldwell, Maya Angelou, singer Kate Smith, Ford, Dr. Annie D. Wauneka and Micki King.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Maya Angelou admires a blow-up a of a Ghana postage stamp in her honor during a ceremony in Washington Thursday Nov. 13,1997. \n\nImage: Patsy Lynch/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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