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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 38

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Inscribed on the temple of Apollo

Inscribed on the temple of Apollo

Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Apollo

Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

Responsibility, Space, Giving

Beautifully Said Magazine Interview, beautifullysmagazine.com.

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.

Children, Clean, Child Of God

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 26, 2013

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

Brother, Children, Men

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

Writing, Who I Am, Darkness

Paris Review, Issue 116, 1990.

I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

Country, Grateful, Moon

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 09, 2012

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

Shame, Huts

Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.9, Random House

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

Kindness, Eye, Months

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.120, Random House

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

Music, Black, Promise

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

Music, Riddle

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.185, Random House

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Music, Lovers, My Family

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.324, Modern Library

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

Sweet, Names, Smell

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

Power, Causes, Intoxication

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.1030, Modern Library

I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

Work, Doe, Needs

I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.

Lost Love, Discipline, People

You never get over the fear of writing.

Writing, Get Over

Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

Party, Holiness, Injured

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

Soul, Helping, My Soul

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

Art, People, Made

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

Writing, People, Black

Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Lakes, Doors, Water

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

Mom, Children, Distance

Interview with Oprah Winfrey in O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, "Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again." They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time.

Sex, Sorry, People

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

Trying, Beloved, Humans

Source: www.washingtontimes.com

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Giving, I've Learned, Greatest Gifts

Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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