Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 21

• You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

  Maya Angelou

  Home, Truth Is, Cozy Home

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

  Maya Angelou

  Truth Is

  "Maya Angelou's Wisdom Distilled in 10 of Her Best Quotes" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

  Maya Angelou

  Education, Helping, Strange

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• I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Mother, Grateful

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• Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Appetite, Good Poetry

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.38, Random House

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• I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

  Maya Angelou

  Care, Proud, Able

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.47, Random House

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• Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Being Free, Trying

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughter, Live Life, Flair

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Even the Stars Look Lonesome”, p.9, Bantam

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• Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

  Maya Angelou

  Kissing, Sick, Action

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2013

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• I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughing, Needs, Serious

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• The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

  Maya Angelou

  Want Something, Way, Greedy

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  MAYA ANGELOU (1969). “I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS”

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• My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

  Maya Angelou

  Kindness, Generosity, Trying

  Source: blues.gr

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• I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Dream, Cost

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• You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  "Still I Rise" l. 1 (1978)

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• Lift up your eyes upon
  This day breaking for you.
  Give birth again
  To the dream.
  Women, children, men,
  Take it into the palms of your hands.
  Mold it into the shape of your most
  Private need. Sculpt it into
  The image of your most public self.
  Lift up your hearts
  Each new hour holds new chances
  For a new beginning.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Children, New Beginnings

  Poem at 1992 Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies, delivered 21 January 1993

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• 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

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• Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of your love. People often get possession mixed up with love, and they say, "If you really loved me, you would call me." How - when life is going on? I think of you all the time, and the thought of you always lifts my spirits. But I'm not right at the phone!

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Phones, People

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• The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

  Maya Angelou

  Block, Ghetto, Men

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

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• Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Years, Live Your Life

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2016

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• I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, God, Responsibility

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library

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• Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

  Maya Angelou

  Loving Someone, Age, Lovers

  "16 Ways Maya Angelou Taught Us How To Love" by Taryn Hillin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

  Maya Angelou

  Peace, Our World, Looks

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem”, p.35, Schwartz & Wade

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• I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

  Maya Angelou

  Practice, Important, Be Kind

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

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