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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 19

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Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Life Is Like, Building, Ends

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

School, Ignorant, Gone

Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.

Children, Eye, Thinking

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

Writing, Serious, Muse

"Famous Writers Share How They Handle Writer’s Block" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2015.

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Kindness, People, Support

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

Growing Up, Differences, Long

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

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

Church, Trying, Temples

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Inspirational, Strength, Education

1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

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.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

Feet, Black, Trying

"At 80, Maya Angelou Reflects on a 'Glorious' Life". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. April 6, 2008.

Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.

Believe, Blessing, Trouble

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Courage, Thinking, Generosity

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

Possibility

If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Common Sense, Be Kind, Fool

I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.

Uplifting, People, Needs

Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

Past, Next, Moments

Interview with Randy Cordova, www.azcentral.com. 2011.

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

Painful, Aspect

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

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

Wise, Knowing, Bored

If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.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.

Moving, Reality, Blessing

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

Too Much, Moderation, All Things

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2013.

Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.

Baby, Teaching, Giving

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Love, Inspirational, Life

Twitter post from May 08, 2013

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

Inspirational, Dream, Hope

Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.9, Random House

If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Laughing, Important, Serious

"Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees" with Anderson Cooper, transcripts.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.

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