Maya Angelou Quotes About Choices

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  If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Funny, Life

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

• Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Responsibility, Choices

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.73, Random House

• Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Light, Opposites

• The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Racism, People

• 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.

• 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

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