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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 25

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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Beauty, Girl, Opportunity

1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.35

My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

Grandmother, Years, World

Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.

People, Rainbow, Shining

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

Pie, Trying, Why Not

"No surrender" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

Beautiful, Home, Eye

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

Moving, Thinking, Long

Twitter post from Apr 16, 2014

There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

Thinking, Soul, Mind

"Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

World, Want, Let Me

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 02, 2010

Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

Uplifting, Flirting, Together

"'The Welcome Table': Recipes from Maya Angelou". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. October 26, 2005.

I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.

Girl, Dream, Kings

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 28, 2013

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

Thank You, Mother, Children

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

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

Courageous, Born

When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

Fun, Intelligent, Brave

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Believe, Design, Quality

I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it's your gift of energy to them.

Believe, Energy, Meals

Source: therumpus.net

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

Water, Benefits, Our Actions

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

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

Inspiring, Writing, Lakes

Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.53, Random House

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

People, Together, Nouns

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

Life, Believe, Home

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

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Children, Our Children, Ifs

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.49, Bantam

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Ignorance, Being Alone, Thinking

"Campus Life: Centenary; Love Is Message As Maya Angeloub Addresses 700", www.nytimes.com. March 11, 1990.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Hurt, Heart, Feet

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Creativity, Thinking, Glory

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

We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.

Country, Real, Thinking

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

Air, Giving, Needs

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.253, Random House

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