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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 11

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Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Wise, Giving, Cherish

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

Inspirational, Language, Platforms

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Random House

Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.

Jobs, World, Want

Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.

Heart, Skins, My Friends

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.12, Random House

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

Laughing, Cry, Reason

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Voice, Might, Beloved

Twitter post from May 23, 2014

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

Adults, Teens, Pressure

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.208, Modern Library

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

Life, Want, Good Things

Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

Inspirational, Strong, Stars

Maya Angelou (2013). “Mom & Me & Mom”, p.10, Random House

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

Peace, Hate, Inspirational Forgiveness

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Mother, Parent, Kind

"Exclusive Interview With Maya Angelou on Her New Book, Mom & Me & Mom". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Love, Morning, Truth

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.423, Modern Library

I try to see every day as a celebration.

Trying, Celebration

Source: www.southernliving.com

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.

Tomorrow, Horror, Grows

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.250, Random House

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Strength, Educational, Teaching

Twitter post from Jul 13, 2016

The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

Moving, Home, Thinking

"A Portrait of Maya Angelou". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. January 8, 1982.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

Sympathy, Condolences, Together Again

Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.

Rivers, Spirit, Harmony

Twitter post from Jun 7, 2017

If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it.

Believe, Visibility, Enough

"America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Humanity, World, Citizens

"Maya Angelou: In disaster, humanity shines". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2011.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

Vision, Tears, Cry

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.235, Random House

Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.

Stars, Powerful, Love Is

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Inspirational, Motivational, Life Changing

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Positive, Intelligent, Giving

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

If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.

Cutting, Class, Support

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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