Phenomenal Woman Quotes - Page 3

• The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2010

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• For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 30, 2010

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• What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

  Maya Angelou

  Cat, Writing, Two

  "Famous Writers Share How They Handle Writer’s Block" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2015.

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• No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, African American, Humanity

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 21, 2010

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• I know why the caged bird sings.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10

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• Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Pretty Woman, Secret

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.3, Random House

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• I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

  Maya Angelou

  Fall, Men, Knees

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.135, Random House

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• In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.

  Maya Angelou

  Self Esteem, Mean, Resilience

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Sep 24, 2013

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• 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

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• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Girl

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

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• My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

  Maya Angelou

  Trust, Drinking, Laughing

  "Maya Angelou: Best-Selling Poet Shares Story of Her Life and Work" by Brent Cunningham, www.buffalo.edu. April 30, 1998.

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• While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, God, Collaboration

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.18, Bantam

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• If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Smile

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Funny, Life

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

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• I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Trust

  "Do Not Love Your Neighbor as Yourself... Yet" by Rea Nolan Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2014.

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• The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

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• I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.

  Serena Williams

  Our Generation, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The desire to reach hearts is wise

  Maya Angelou

  Wise, Heart, Ambition

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

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• I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Trust, Drinking, People

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