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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 9

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Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

Wise, Remember You, Remembers You

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

Passion, Will To Survive, Aim Of Life

Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Book, Native American, Black History

"Maya Angelou: 'Barack Obama has done a remarkable job'" by Hugh Muir, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2012.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

Life, Growing Up, Parent

"Reflecting on joys and trials of being a woman", www.today.com. April 17, 2006.

No not me go find someone else to bring down

Survival

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

Life, Knowing, Women's Rights

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 06, 2012

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

Done, Late, Convinced

Twitter post from Nov 13, 2016

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.

Giving, Teach, Ifs

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Life Changing, Space, Soul

Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.48, Random House

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Pain, Positive Thinking, I've Learned

Twitter post from Jul 26, 2016

The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

Kids, School, White

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

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

Life, Sacrifice, Willing

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.

Spiritual, Would Be, Bags

Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

Clouds, Rainbow

I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard.

Beautiful, Taken, Coal

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

Courage, Practice, Bravery

USA Today, March 5, 1988.

I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

Dream, Morning, Shoes

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Love, Respect, Self

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 25, 2013

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

Positive, Forgiveness, Mean

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Mother, Teacher, Educational

Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

Responsibility, Clouds, Rainbow

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Achievement

"Breaking the Glass Ceiling" by Barbara R. Arnwine, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2010.

I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

Challenges, Bears, Feels

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Positive, Sacrifice, Able

Twitter post from Jul 23, 2015

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Knows, Liberated

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