Maya Angelou Quotes About Rainbows

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  Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

• If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Rainbow, Chance

• To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

  Maya Angelou

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Modern Library

• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Thinking, Clouds

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Letter To My Daughter”, p.7, Hachette UK

• God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Chasing Rainbows, Moments

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2010

• 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

• Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Rainbow

• When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Clouds, Rainbow

• I've had rainbows in my clouds.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Rainbow

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2017

• Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Rainbow, Shining

• Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Clouds, Rainbow

• Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Clouds, Rainbow

• Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Rainbow, Want

• Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Rainbow

• This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Rainbow, Shining

• Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Grandmother, Clouds

• Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Rainbow, Shining

• 'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling.

  Maya Angelou

  Wise, Clouds, Color

  Harrisburg Forum, November 30, 2001.

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