Maya Angelou Quotes About Darkness

• When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Responsibility, Light

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Pain, Real

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

• I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.

  Maya Angelou

  Fall, Talking, America

• When I'm 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Who I Am, Darkness

  Paris Review, Issue 116, 1990.

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