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Maya Angelou Quotes about Inspirational - Page 4

All Maya Angelou Quotes Achievement Adventure Adversity Age Aging Appreciation Art Attitude Beauty Being Alone Birth Black History Bravery Cancer Challenges Change Character Children Choices Christmas Church Communication Community Compassion Confidence Country Courage Creativity Culture Dance Darkness Death Defeat Determination Discipline Diversity Dying Earth Education Effort Ego Electricity Empowerment Encouragement Encouraging Energy Ethics Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fighting Forgiveness Freedom Friendship Generosity Giving Glory God Grace Graduation Gratitude Growing Up Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Healing Heart Hell Helping Others History Home Honesty Hope House Humanity Humility Hurt Husband Identity Ignorance Inspirational quotes Inspiring Intelligence Journey Joy Justice Kindness Language Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Life Listening Live Life Loneliness Love Love Life Lying Memories Modesty Mom Monday Morning Motivation Motivational Moving On Music Overcoming Pain Passion Past Peace Persistence Pleasure Poetry Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Prejudice Pride Purpose Quality Racism Reading Reality Regret Respect Responsibility Romance Running Sacrifice School Segregation Self Esteem Silence Skins Sleep Son Soul Spring Strength Struggle Style Success Survival Sympathy Talent Teaching Thankful Thanksgiving Time Today Travel Trust Truth Virtue Waiting Wall War Water Whining Winning Wisdom Writing Yoga

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.202, Modern Library

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Inspirational, Truth, Men

1972 On Africa. In the New York Times,16 Apr.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2010

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Maya Angelou (1993). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, Random House Canada

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Inspirational, Strength, Education

1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Love, Inspirational, Life

Twitter post from May 08, 2013

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

Inspirational, Dream, Hope

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

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Inspirational, Family, Powerful

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

I sustain myself with the love of family.

Inspirational, Family, Cousin

Twitter post from May 23, 2013

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

Twitter post from Jul 21, 2016

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2011

I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Inspirational, Save Me, Knows

"6 Maya Angelou Quotes About Love to Incorporate Into Your Wedding" by Kim Fusaro, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.38, Random House

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

Inspirational, Maturity, Battle

Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

Life loves the liver of it.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

1977 Interview in Black Scholar, Jan- Feb. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Inspirational

Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.19, Random House

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Inspirational, Wise, Insperational

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

Inspirational, Forever, Triumph

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.13, Modern Library

I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

Inspirational, Children, Child Of God

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

"Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Inspirational, I've Learned, Open Heart

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