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Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

Maya Angelou

Love, Life, Heart

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 03, 2011

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

Maya Angelou

Life, Country, Art

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Maya Angelou

Life, Choices, Caged Birds

1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.31.

I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

Maya Angelou

Life, Cities, Two

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

Maya Angelou

Life, People, Demand

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.155, Modern Library

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

Maya Angelou

Life, Long, Futility

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.190, Modern Library

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

Maya Angelou

Life, Sports, Country

Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.220, Random House

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

Maya Angelou

Life, Growing Up, Years

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