Maya Angelou Quotes About Memories

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

• We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Pain, Memories

• Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Song, Lonely

• I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Death, Memories

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Letter To My Daughter”, p.64, Hachette UK

• I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

  Maya Angelou

  Memories, Good Memories

  "1950s 'Porgy and Bess' Castmember Maya Angelou Reflects On Production's Significance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.

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