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Maya Angelou Quotes about Inspiring - Page 2

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I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

Inspiring, Persistence, People

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Inspiring, Responsibility, Accepting

Twitter post from Mar 20, 2014

When I am 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. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound.

Inspiring, Pain, Real

"35 Maya Angelou Quotes That Changed My Life" by J.N. Salters, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

Inspiring, Forgiveness, Heart

Twitter post from Apr 06, 2014

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Inspiring, Courage, Thoughtful

You can never be great at anything unless you love it.

Inspirational, Inspiring

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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

I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

Inspiring, Love You, Grateful

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

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

Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

Twitter post from Jul 21, 2016

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Life, Happiness, Inspiring

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 08, 2009

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Inspiring, Believe, Love Life

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

Inspiring, Running, Book

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

Inspiring, Writing, Lakes

Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.53, Random House

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

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

"Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

Inspiring, Love Life, Thoughtful

"Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. November 21, 1973.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Inspiring, Writing, Poetry

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Inspiring, Writing, Creative

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.31, Bantam

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

Inspiring, Loving Life, Thoughtful

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Inspiring, Reading, Book

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 30, 2010

The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

Inspiring, Morning, Grateful

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Inspiring, Whining, Victim

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Inspiring, Dream, Responsibility

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

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

I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do.

Inspiring, Law, Long

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