Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 10

All Quotes Achievement Adventure Adversity Age Aging Appreciation Art Attitude Beauty Being Alone Birth Black History Bravery Cancer Challenges Change Character Children Choices Christmas Church Communication Community Compassion Confidence Country Courage Creativity Culture Dance Darkness Death Defeat Determination Discipline Diversity Dying Earth Education Effort Ego Electricity Empowerment Encouragement Encouraging Energy Ethics Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fighting Forgiveness Freedom Friendship Generosity Giving Glory God Grace Graduation Gratitude Growing Up Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Healing Heart Hell Helping Others History Home Honesty Hope House Humanity Humility Hurt Husband Identity Ignorance Inspirational Inspiring Intelligence Journey Joy Justice Kindness Language Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Life Listening Live Life Loneliness Love Love Life Lying Memories Modesty Mom Monday Morning Motivation Motivational Moving On Music Overcoming Pain Passion Past Peace Persistence Pleasure Poetry Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Prejudice Pride Purpose Quality Racism Reading Reality Regret Respect Responsibility Romance Running Sacrifice School Segregation Self Esteem Silence Skins Sleep Son Soul Spring Strength Struggle Style Success Survival Sympathy Talent Teaching Thankful Thanksgiving Time Today Travel Trust Truth Virtue Waiting Wall War Water Whining Winning Wisdom Writing Yoga

We are only as blind as we want to be.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

Life, Want, Blind

In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

Adversity, Race, Survival

The future is plump with promise.

Promise

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

Lying, Responsibility, Choices

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.73, Random House

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Positive, Mean, Voice

Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

Evil, Needs, Facts

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

Children, Responsibility, Tomorrow

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 29, 2010

If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.

Clouds, Rainbow, Chance

When we know better, we do better.

Climate Change, Knows

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

Disappointment, Winning, Order

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.34, Bantam

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Expression, Cooking, Likes

"Maya Angelou: 'I make no apologies for writing a cookbook'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2011.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Inspirational, Humans, Human Beings

Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

Protect

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 04, 2010

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

Faith, God, Christian

"Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.

World

"The 3 Lessons Maya Angelou Taught Us About Coping" by Jan Bruce, www.mequilibrium.com. June 10, 2014.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

Brother, Past, Community

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 09, 2014

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

Inspiring, Thoughtful, Loving Life

Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Beautiful, Falling In Love, Art

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

Incidents, Lows, Place In Life

We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

Children, Voice, Silence

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

Change, Happiness, Inspiring

We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

Creativity, Kids, Years

You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

Humility, Want, Modesty

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

Promise, Possibility, Seeming

"The 3 Lessons Maya Angelou Taught Us About Coping" by Jan Bruce, www.mequilibrium.com. June 10, 2014.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

Real, Thinking, Overcoming

"The Amazing Fitness Adventure for Your Kids: 90 Days to Raising Healthy Children" by Phil Parham, Amy Parham, Harvest House Publishers, (p. 80), September 1, 2011.

You May Also Like: