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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 12

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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Grateful, Done, Another Life

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Life Lesson, Sleep, Thinking

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

Stars, Wall, Ocean

"Learning From Maya" by Sue Shanahan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2014.

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

May, Pay, Paid

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

Brother, Character, People

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

Being a woman is hard work.

Inspiring, Women, Hard Work

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.

Path, Steps, Brands

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

Lying, Struggle, Joy

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.206, Modern Library

Look for the beauty in things.

Looks

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

Positive, Responsibility, Space

A societies needs determines their ethics

Needs, Ethics, Determine

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Respect, African American, Black Women

Twitter post from Nov 23, 2015

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Life, Travel, Laughter

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

Distance, Lying, Two

Freedom is never free.

Veterans Day, Veteran

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 29, 2010

When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.

Care, Take Care

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 01, 2012

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

Inspirational, Mother, Self

It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

Eye, Fire, Swings

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.135, Random House

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

Order, Two, African American

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.218, Modern Library

Forgive yourself - no one else will.

Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

Ego

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.38, Random House

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

Reading, Writing, Giving

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 12, 2013

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