Maya Angelou Quotes About Wall

• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

• Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

  Maya Angelou

  Patience, Wall, Passion

• Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Ignorance, Thinking

• Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

  Maya Angelou

  Stars, Wall, Ocean

  "Learning From Maya" by Sue Shanahan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2014.

• In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Hymns, Long

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Poet And Memoirist Maya Angelou". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 28, 2014.

• Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Modesty, Slam

• To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Mean, Together

• The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Views, Church

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