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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 17

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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.11, Bantam

This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.

Clouds, Rainbow, Shining

Love recognizes no barriers.

Love, Barriers

"6 Maya Angelou Quotes About Love to Incorporate Into Your Wedding" by Kim Fusaro, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

Reality, Giving, Failing

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

Company, Things To Do, Policy

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

I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

Running, Rose, World

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

Regret, Ignorance, Years

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Love, Life, Greed

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

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

Heart, Sleep, Soul

Maya Angelou (2010). “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”, p.194, Hachette UK

To those who are given much, much is expected.

Inspirational, Given, Expected

Tell the truth and not the facts.

Facts, Telling The Truth

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

Men, Mind, Noble

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

Love Life, Be Good, Liver

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

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Thinking, Trying, Illness

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

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

Creativity, Light, Important

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

Art, Soul, Trying

My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

Son, People, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

Responsibility, Trying, Debt

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

Yoga, Heart, Rainy Day

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '

Race, Way, Enough

"VIDEO: Dr. Maya Angelou Talks Education & More on MSNBC". Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry, www.broadwayworld.com. September 17, 2012.

Shakespeare must be a black girl.

Girl, Black, Black Girl

"10 Things You Didn’t Know About Maya Angelou’s Incredible Life" by Amanda Scherker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone- because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Not just how tall we are, or thin… but who we are internally… perhaps even spiritually. There’s something, which impels us to show our inner-souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Life, Ocean, Writing

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

Iron, Window, Used

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.32, Bantam

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Race, Doors, People

Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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