Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 27

• You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Consistency, Have Courage, Merciful

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• Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Ignorance, Kids

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 08, 2011

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• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Communication

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• I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

  Maya Angelou

  War, Lessons, Humans

  "Goal Mapping : How to Turn Your Dreams into Realities" by Brian Mayne, (p. 84), 2006.

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• Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Remember You

  "Diversity : Leaders Not Labels" by Stedman Graham, (p. 224), 2006.

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• On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

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  Real, Garden, Play

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• Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

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  Running, Writing, Thinking

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• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

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  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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  Inspiring, Writing, Poetry

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• Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

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  4th Of July, Wine, Brain

  Maya Angelou (2013). “Mom & Me & Mom”, p.77, Random House

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• Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

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  Mom, Hair, Stronger

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• I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Hip Hop

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• When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

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  Dream, Ideas, Musician

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

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• I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Love Life, Thoughtful

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

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• When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that."

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  Art, Life Changing, Writing

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• We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

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  Education, People, Climate

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• The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation.

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  Jumping, Political, Climate

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• Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

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  Forever

  Poem at 1992 Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies, delivered 21 January 1993

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• All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

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  Heart, Artist, Resources

  "Maya Angelou: 'I'm fine as wine in the summertime'". Interview With Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2009.

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• You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

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  Children, Castles, Moats

  Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.21, Random House

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• I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

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  Life, Children, Growing Up

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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• I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

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  Brother, Sibling, Believe

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• Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God loves me." The hardest part for me is to realize that while God loves me, and I am a child of God, I have to see the bigot and the brute and the rapist, and whether he or she knows it or not, I have to know that that person is a child of God. That is part of the responsibility - and it's hard.

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  Children, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

  Maya Angelou

  Trust, Life And Love, Believe

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2016

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• I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

  Maya Angelou

  Graduation, Giving, Courageous

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