Maya Angelou Quotes About Grace

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Persistence, People

• In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim volume called The Prince. In that book he showed the powers that be how to control the people. That book is a statement: separate and rule, divide and conquer. That's five hundred years ago and it still works, because we allow ourselves to be lead around with holes through our noses.

  Maya Angelou

  Powerful, Book, Years

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

• Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Grace, Trying

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

• One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

  Maya Angelou

  Christmas, Thank You, Karma

• Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Morning, Brother

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 30, 2009

• All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Grace, Survival, Encounters

• Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

  Maya Angelou

  Lakes, Doors, Water

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