Maya Angelou Quotes About Reality

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  If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam

• A single fantasy can transform a million realities.

  Maya Angelou

  Reality, Fantasy, Millions

• My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Reality, Responsible

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

• It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Reality, Giving, Failing

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

• Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

  Maya Angelou

  Eye, Reality, Changed

• 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

• If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Reality, Blessing

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