Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 12

• I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Intelligent, Giving

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Character, People

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

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• There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

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• I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

  Maya Angelou

  Grateful, Done, Another Life

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• It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

  Maya Angelou

  Eye, Fire, Swings

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

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• Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughing, Cry, Reason

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• This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Want, Good Things

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• Forgive yourself - no one else will.

  Maya Angelou

  Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

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• Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

  Maya Angelou

  Ego

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.38, Random House

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• Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Ideas, Mind

  Source: blues.gr

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• The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Roots, World

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith In God, Wonderful, Knows

  "Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

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• There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Lesson, Sleep, Thinking

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• What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Responsibility, Space

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• Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

  Maya Angelou

  Patience, Wall, Passion

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• Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Dance, Upset

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.8, Random House

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• Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.

  Maya Angelou

  Path, Steps, Brands

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• Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

  Maya Angelou

  Friendship, Lonely, Loneliness

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.82, Random House

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• When we know better, we do better.

  Maya Angelou

  Climate Change, Knows

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• I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Mother, Self

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• When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Responsibility, Accepting

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2014

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• I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Travel, Home, Positivity

  Twitter post from Jul 13, 2015

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• During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

  Maya Angelou

  Humanity, World, Citizens

  "Maya Angelou: In disaster, humanity shines". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2011.

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• To those who are given much, much is expected.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Given, Expected

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• Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

  Maya Angelou

  Tickets, Offers

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

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