Maya Angelou Quotes About Sleep

• There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Lesson, Sleep, Thinking

• Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

  Maya Angelou

  Christian, Buddhist, Morning

  "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. November 21, 1973.

• When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Sleep, Soul

  Maya Angelou (2010). “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”, p.194, Hachette UK

• 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

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