Maya Angelou Quotes
The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.
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.
There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.
Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.
On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.
It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.
I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
