Maya Angelou Quotes About Rice

• One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.

  Maya Angelou

  Spiritual, Would Be, Bags

• Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

  Maya Angelou

  Growing Up, Grandmother, Exotic

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

• I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.

  Maya Angelou

  Men, Years, Potatoes

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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