Maya Angelou Quotes About Home

• I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Travel, Home, Positivity

  Twitter post from Jul 13, 2015
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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

• 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

• The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Changing, Home, Acceptance

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2014

• You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

  Maya Angelou

  Home, Truth Is, Cozy Home

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

• My mother had said me, "All right, you've been raised, so don't let anybody else raise you. You know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. And remember - you can always come home." And she continued to liberate me until she died. On the night she died, I went to the hospital. I told my mom, "Let me tell you about yourself. You deserved a great daughter, and you got one. And you liberated me to be one. So if it's time for you to go, you may have done everything God brought you here to do."

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Mother, Daughter

• The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Home, Thinking

  "A Portrait of Maya Angelou". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. January 8, 1982.

• We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Believe, Home

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

• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

  Maya Angelou

  Time, Children, War

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

• I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Home, Angel

• Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Home, Eye

• I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.

  Maya Angelou

  New York, Children, Home

  "Interview: How Libraries Changed Maya Angelou’s Life". Interview with Angela Montefinise, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

• That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

  Maya Angelou

  Home, Giving, Dont Care

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.203, Modern Library

• If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Mistake, Love You

• Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Sibling, Real

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

• Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

  Maya Angelou

  Encouragement, Home, Trying

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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