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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 26

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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

Library, Different, Information

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

Inspirational, Forever, Triumph

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.13, Modern Library

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

Black, Church, Facts

The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

Night, Hair, Dresses

Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.3, Vintage

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

Eye, Reality, Changed

Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

Family, Might, Insult

Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.11, Vintage

Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

Children, Sibling, Real

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

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

Hero, Men, Long

Maya Angelou (1987). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, Vintage

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Song, Listening, Sometimes

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Art, Writing, Prose Poetry

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Song, Mean, Southern

Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

Mean, Skins, Aging

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.77, Random House

And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

Religious, Stars, Thinking

Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

Inspirational, Children, Child Of God

I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.

Religious, Character, Proud

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

We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre in order to oppose street gangs. We should have a well-supported regional theatre in order to oppose regionalism and.

Art, Order, Should Have

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

Grace, Survival, Encounters

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

Comfort, Chickens, Fried Food

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

"Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

Blood, Draws

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.38, Random House

I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

Daughter, Sex, Children

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

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Courage, Practice, Aries

"Diversity : Leaders Not Labels" by Stedman Graham, (p. 224), 2006.

You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

Consistency, Have Courage, Merciful

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Children, Ignorance, Kids

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 08, 2011

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Life, Wisdom, Communication

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