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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 8

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Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

Life, Grace, Trying

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

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Inspirational, Laughter, Laughing

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Love, Life, Passion

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.797, Modern Library

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

Clouds, Chasing Rainbows, Moments

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2010

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Inspirational, Motivational, Children

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

Moon, Tides, Sun

Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise”

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

Nature, Get Well, Healing

I come as one, but stand as 10,000.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Learning, House, Words Of Wisdom

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

Inspiring, Fall, Thoughtful

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

Faith In God, Wonderful, Knows

"Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Cute, Fashion, Women

"Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Love, Inspirational, Revolution

1975 Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Life Changing, Home, Acceptance

Twitter post from Mar 10, 2014

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

Encounters, May, Who We Are

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim volume called The Prince. In that book he showed the powers that be how to control the people. That book is a statement: separate and rule, divide and conquer. That's five hundred years ago and it still works, because we allow ourselves to be lead around with holes through our noses.

Powerful, Book, Years

Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

Tickets, Offers

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

You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.

Littles, Courageous, Little Things

We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

Laughing, Maine, Way

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.227, Random House

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Mind, Identity, Roles

I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

Grateful, Intelligent, Grudge

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Sep 11, 2012

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

Regret, Ignorance, Years

When you know better you do better.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

"Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

Night, Leaving, Terror

Maya Angelou (2011). “And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems”, p.47, Random House

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