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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 23

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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors,

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Mother, Good Friend, Feelings

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 14, 2015

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

Birthday, Men, Age

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.266, Random House

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

Country, Time, Art

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Influence

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.723, Modern Library

I live in an atmosphere of music.

Atmosphere

Twitter post from Aug 24, 2010

Life loves the liver of it.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

1977 Interview in Black Scholar, Jan- Feb. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Powerful, Writing, Heart

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Hero, Thinking, African American

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Way, Segregation, Liberated

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Inspiring, Believe, Love Life

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Time, Children, War

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

Joy, Feelings, Needs

Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

Inspiring, Running, Book

I've had rainbows in my clouds.

Clouds, Rainbow

Twitter post from Oct 15, 2017

I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

Dream, Believe, Home

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

Encouragement, Library, Tomorrow

There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

Sacrifice, Long, Racism

Source: teentalkingcircles.org

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

Clouds, Rainbow, Shining

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

Mother, Cooking, Pork

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Beautiful, Numbers, Language

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Love, Pain, Memories

If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

Guy, Would Be, Wide

Don't let the man bring you down.

Freedom, Men

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Inspirational

Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.19, Random House

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