Maya Angelou Quotes About Language

• The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

  Maya Angelou

  Blessing, Thinking, Clouds

• Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Long, Ears

• 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.

• On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Language, Platforms

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Random House

• We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

  Maya Angelou

  Pain, Needs, Who We Are

• I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Numbers, Language

• If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Trying, Culture

  Source: www.azcentral.com

• I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Language, Admire

• All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Feelings, Sound

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

• I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Language, Rhythm

• Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

  Maya Angelou

  New York, Book, Forever

  "Let’s Stop Talking About Maya Angelou" by Jeff Steinmann, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

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