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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 21

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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Truth Is

"Maya Angelou's Wisdom Distilled in 10 of Her Best Quotes" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. May 28, 2014.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Education, Helping, Strange

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

Thinking, Appetite, Good Poetry

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

Life, Mother, Grateful

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

Care, Proud, Able

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.47, Random House

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.38, Random House

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

Kissing, Sick, Action

Twitter post from Nov 10, 2013

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

People, Being Free, Trying

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

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Laughing, Needs, Serious

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

Laughter, Live Life, Flair

Maya Angelou (2014). “Even the Stars Look Lonesome”, p.9, Bantam

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

Want Something, Way, Greedy

Source: blankonblank.org

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

MAYA ANGELOU (1969). “I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS”

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

Kindness, Generosity, Trying

Source: blues.gr

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

Life, Dream, Cost

Lift up your eyes upon This day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Women, children, men, Take it into the palms of your hands. Mold it into the shape of your most Private need. Sculpt it into The image of your most public self. Lift up your hearts Each new hour holds new chances For a new beginning.

Dream, Children, New Beginnings

Poem at 1992 Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies, delivered 21 January 1993

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

Wall, Ignorance, Thinking

Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of your love. People often get possession mixed up with love, and they say, "If you really loved me, you would call me." How - when life is going on? I think of you all the time, and the thought of you always lifts my spirits. But I'm not right at the phone!

Thinking, Phones, People

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

Block, Ghetto, Men

"Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. November 21, 1973.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

Regret, Years, Live Your Life

Twitter post from Jun 12, 2016

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

Life, God, Responsibility

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

Practice, Important, Be Kind

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

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

Thinking, Caged Birds, Ifs

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Book by Maya Angelou, www.theguardian.com. 1969.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Loving Someone, Age, Lovers

"16 Ways Maya Angelou Taught Us How To Love" by Taryn Hillin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

Peace, Our World, Looks

Maya Angelou (2010). “Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem”, p.35, Schwartz & Wade

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

Apples, Pregnant

Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.283, Random House

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