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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 20

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A mother's love liberates.

A mother's love liberates.

Family, Mom, Mother

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Inspirational, Family, Powerful

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

I sustain myself with the love of family.

Inspirational, Family, Cousin

Twitter post from May 23, 2013

Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

Daughter, Son, Finding Someone

"Maya Angelou Called On New York State Senators To Back Gay Marriage In 2009" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

At our best, we are all teachers

Teacher

The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

Children, Mind, World

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

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.

Ocean, Writing, Swim

When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

Writing, Stories, Down And

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

Twitter post from Jul 21, 2016

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2011

Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters

Brother, Knowing, Giving

Maya Angelou, “The Black Family Pledge”

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Vitality, Encounters, May

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

I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

Thinking, People, Trying

Source: www.azcentral.com

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

Balance, World, Demand

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.173, Modern Library

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

Mother, Teacher, People

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 10, 2013

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

Running, Humility, Thinking

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Positive, Self, Doe

1974 Gather Together In My Name, ch.6.

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

Motivational, Determination, Believe

I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

Stories, Storytelling, Trade

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

Ignorance, African American, Humanity

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 21, 2010

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

Humility, Responsibility, Important

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 05, 2013

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Art, Children, Inspirational Life

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Strong, Heart, Son

Twitter post from Nov 26, 2015

I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Inspirational, Save Me, Knows

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

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

Home, Truth Is, Cozy Home

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

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