Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 38

• Inscribed on the temple of Apollo

  Maya Angelou

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Apollo

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• Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Space, Giving

  Beautifully Said Magazine Interview, beautifullysmagazine.com.

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• There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Clean, Child Of God

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 26, 2013

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• I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Children, Men

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• When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Who I Am, Darkness

  Paris Review, Issue 116, 1990.

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• I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Grateful, Moon

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 09, 2012

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• Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Shame, Huts

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.9, Random House

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• Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

  Maya Angelou

  Kindness, Eye, Months

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.120, Random House

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• Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

  Maya Angelou

  Music, Black, Promise

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• All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

  Maya Angelou

  Music, Riddle

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.185, Random House

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• The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

  Maya Angelou

  Music, Lovers, My Family

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.324, Modern Library

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• A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

  Maya Angelou

  Sweet, Names, Smell

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

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• Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

  Maya Angelou

  Power, Causes, Intoxication

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.1030, Modern Library

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• I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

  Maya Angelou

  Work, Doe, Needs

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• I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.

  Maya Angelou

  Lost Love, Discipline, People

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• You never get over the fear of writing.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Get Over

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• Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

  Maya Angelou

  Party, Holiness, Injured

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• Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

  Maya Angelou

  Soul, Helping, My Soul

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• I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, People, Made

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• I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, People, Black

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• Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

  Maya Angelou

  Lakes, Doors, Water

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• There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Children, Distance

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey in O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, "Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again." They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time.

  Maya Angelou

  Sex, Sorry, People

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

  Maya Angelou

  Trying, Beloved, Humans

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Giving, I've Learned, Greatest Gifts

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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