Maya Angelou Quotes About Pride

• There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

  Maya Angelou

  Sleep, Pride, Winning

  Maya Angelou (1983). “Shaker, why don't you sing?”, Random House Inc

• My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

  Maya Angelou

  Family, Pride, Affair

  Maya Angelou (2009). “Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas”, p.19, Random House

• Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

  Maya Angelou

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

  'His Day Is Done' - Poem in Tribute to Nelson Mandela, delivered December 2013

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