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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 16

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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Inspiring, Courage, Thoughtful

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Grandmother, Men, Years

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

Friendship, Lonely, Loneliness

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.82, Random House

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

Encounters, Hell, Persons

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

Want, Honest, Shows

Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.

Education, Goes On, Way

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Inspirational, Motivational, Nature

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

You can never be great at anything unless you love it.

Inspirational, Inspiring

I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

Mother, Phenomenal Woman, Grandmother

My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

Music, Freedom, Race

Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.85, Random House

Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.

Religious, Stars, Rain

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Inspirational, Life Changing, Failure

"35 Maya Angelou Quotes That Changed My Life" by J.N. Salters, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.

Mean, Important, Negative

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

Volunteer

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

Book, Reading, Writing

Twitter post from Jul 31, 2015

The most important thing is to DARE.

Important, Dare, Important Things

What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

Teacher, Children, Mean

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Life Changing, Long, Sides

Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.

Inspirational, Differences, Mind

"Maya Angelou: my terrible, wonderful mother" by Maya Angelou, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

Strong Women, Humanness Is, Jewels

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Inspirational, Life, Heart

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 17, 2015

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Life, Soul, Old Love

Maya Angelou, “Touched By An Angel”

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

Giving, Challenges, Accepting

I keep on dying, Because I love to live

Dying

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.145, Random House

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Voice, Poetry, Humans

1989 In' The Power of the Word', Public Broadcasting Service,15 Sep.

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