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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 35

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The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

Taken, Doubt, Caged Birds

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.28, Modern Library

Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Be Brave, Only Love

Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.

Raises, Raised

The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

Nice, Giving, Needs

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Second Chance, Giving, Sometimes

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

Hero, Men, Race

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.20, Modern Library

I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

Blessed, Sick, Healthy

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

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

Laughing, Sweetest, Humans

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Mother, Country, People

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

Want, Telling The Truth, Leading Me

Twitter post from Sep 25, 2013

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

Buffets, Life Is, Limitless

"Maya Angelou's poem in praise of Hillary" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2008.

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

Rivers, Tree, Today

Maya Angelou (2011). “Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer”, p.8, Random House

We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.

We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.

Do The Best, Knows

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

Uplifting, Love Life, Laughing

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

Positive, Needs, Caged Birds

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.173, Modern Library

My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

Teacher, Teaching, Believe

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.166, Modern Library

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

Inspirational, Motivational, Hate

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

At our best, we're all teachers

Teacher

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Book, Writing, Recipes

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

Inspiring, Grateful, Use

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

Running, Jobs, Husband

I know something better is on the road for me.

Something Better, Knows

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2013.

Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

Girl, Grandmother, Clouds

Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.

Clouds, Rainbow, Want

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