Maya Angelou Quotes About Sacrifice

• Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Sacrifice, Able

  Twitter post from Jul 23, 2015

• You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Sacrifice, Willing

• There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

  Maya Angelou

  Sacrifice, Long, Racism

  Source: teentalkingcircles.org

• 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

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