Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 11

• We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Voice, Silence

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• The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

  Maya Angelou

  Past, Past Present Future, Doe

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 20, 2011

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• We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

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  Brother, Past, Community

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 09, 2014

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• We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Kids, Years

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• Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

  Maya Angelou

  Music, Dance, Earth Day

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 25, 2011

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• Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Soul, Trying

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• Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

  Maya Angelou

  Giving, Saying Thank You, Greatest Gifts

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 12, 2014

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• As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Nursing, Opportunity

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• Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

  Maya Angelou

  Adults, Teens, Pressure

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.208, Modern Library

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• The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.

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  Distance, Heart, Differences

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• A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Morning, Truth

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.423, Modern Library

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• I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

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  Positive, Breathing, Long

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• Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

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  Incidents, Lows, Place In Life

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• You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

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  Humility, Want, Modesty

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• A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

  Maya Angelou

  Sympathy, Condolences, Together Again

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

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• Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

  Maya Angelou

  Wise, Giving, Cherish

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• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

  Maya Angelou

  Respect, African American, Black Women

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2015

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• The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Life Changing

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• If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.

  Maya Angelou

  Cutting, Class, Support

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

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  Moving, Home, Thinking

  "A Portrait of Maya Angelou". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. January 8, 1982.

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• Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.

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  Stars, Powerful, Love Is

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• Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

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  Inspirational, Loyalty, Honesty

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.44, Bantam

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• Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

  Maya Angelou

  Reading, Writing, Giving

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 12, 2013

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• 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.

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  Stars, Wall, Ocean

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

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• No one has ever become poor from giving.

  Maya Angelou

  Christmas, Giving, Poor

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