Phenomenal Woman Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Moving On, Sad

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• Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Death, Inspirational Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 02, 2010

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• Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Sympathy, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 05, 2012

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• The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2014

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• My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

  Maya Angelou

  Passion, Will To Survive, Aim Of Life

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2016

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• I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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  Nothing will work unless you do.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2017

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• All great achievements require time.

  Maya Angelou

  Success, Encouraging, Patience

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 27, 2011

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• One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

  Barack Obama

  Light, Brilliant, Fierce

  "Maya Angelou dies at age 86: See poet talk life lessons, 'greatest gift' on TODAY" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. May 28, 2014.

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• The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

  Maya Angelou

  Black, Sometimes, Breasts

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

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• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2010

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• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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

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• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 14, 2013

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• Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Forgiveness, Heart

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2014

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• If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Thank You

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 06, 2010

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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  Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Education, Perseverance

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• I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 26, 2013

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