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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 28

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

Bizarre, Innuendo, Niceties

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.423, Modern Library

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

Cynical, World, Young

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

I like to know what's happening.

Knows, Happenings

Source: www.azcentral.com

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

Reading, Writing, Hawthorne

Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

Creativity, Use, Able

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

If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.

Men, Gags, Ifs

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Abolition Of Slavery, Issues, Serious

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

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Life, Communication, Writing

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

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.

New York, Children, Home

"Interview: How Libraries Changed Maya Angelou’s Life". Interview with Angela Montefinise, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

Fire, Clean

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

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

Thinking, Long, Ears

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Peace, Jobs, Vacation

"Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now". Book by Maya Angelou, www.politico.com. 1993.

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

Blessed, Pessimistic, Today

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.32, Random House

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

Past, One Day, Needs

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.64, Bantam

All God's children need traveling shoes.

Children, Shoes, Needs

Maya Angelou (2013). “Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie: Poems”, p.53, Random House

Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.

Spiritual, Monday, Sunday

Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

Preach it, I say preach it.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

Life Changing, Would Be, Shapes

"35 Maya Angelou Quotes That Changed My Life" by J.N. Salters, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

Positive, War, Years

1974 On the end of World War II. Gather Together In My Name, prologue.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

Determination, Heart, Delight

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

Black, Sometimes, Breasts

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

Heart, Hands, People

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Wonderful, Teach, Wonderful Things

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Gay, Men, White

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

People, Language, Admire

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