Maya Angelou Quotes About Lying

• Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

  Maya Angelou

  Cute, Fashion, Women

  "Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)

• Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Healing, Heal

• Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Honesty

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.44, Bantam

• You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  "Still I Rise" l. 1 (1978)

• Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Responsibility, Choices

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.73, Random House

• Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

  Maya Angelou

  Distance, Lying, Two

• She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Struggle, Joy

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.206, Modern Library

• "Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not including my mother or Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in that." She said, "You are very intelligent and you're very kind, and those two qualities do not often go together." Then she went across the street and got in her car, and I went the other way down to the streetcar. I thought, "Suppose she's right. She's intelligent - and she's too mean to lie." You see, a parent has the chance - and maybe the responsibility - to liberate her child. And my mom had liberated me when I was 17.

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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

• Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.

  Maya Angelou

  Cute, Fashion, Lying

  Maya Angelou (1994). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, Random House Incorporated

• Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Hate, Rocks

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.250, Random House

• Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Pretty Woman, Secret

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.3, Random House

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