Maya Angelou

(597 votes)   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
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(372 votes)   Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(305 votes)   A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(289 votes)   Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(258 votes)   The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

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(242 votes)   I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(242 votes)   Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(241 votes)   Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(205 votes)   All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(185 votes)   The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(152 votes)   Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(151 votes)   The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(105 votes)   Effective action is always unjust.

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(103 votes)   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.

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(97 votes)   If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

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