Maya Angelou Quotes About Dreams

• I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Believe, Home

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

• I am the dream and the hope of the slave

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, History, African American

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

• The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Friendship, Dream

  Twitter post from May 19, 2013

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Dream, Hope

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

• The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 07, 2010

• I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Morning, Shoes

• I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dream, Kings

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 28, 2013

• A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Trying, Persons

• When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Ideas, Musician

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

• Lift up your eyes upon
  This day breaking for you.
  Give birth again
  To the dream.
  Women, children, men,
  Take it into the palms of your hands.
  Mold it into the shape of your most
  Private need. Sculpt it into
  The image of your most public self.
  Lift up your hearts
  Each new hour holds new chances
  For a new beginning.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Children, New Beginnings

  Poem at 1992 Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies, delivered 21 January 1993

• Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you...

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Dare, Your Dreams

  "Song: The Dreamer (The Dreamer/The Believer)". December 20, 2011.

• If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Dream, Kings

• Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Your Dreams

• By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

• But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Powerful, Bird

  Maya Angelou (2013). “Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?”, p.20, Random House

• Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Pain, Ocean

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2012

• I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Dream, Cost

• I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, June, 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Dream, Responsibility

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

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