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Maya Angelou Quotes

Maya Angelou quotes

American Poet April 4, 1928

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Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind. Maya Angelou
The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness. Maya Angelou
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, 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 as well. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou quote: "A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face."
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou quote: "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit..."
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou quote: "We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike."
We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou quote: "No one can take the place of a friend, no one."
No one can take the place of a friend, no one. Maya Angelou
She acted just as refined as whitefolks in the movies and books and she was more beautiful, for none of them could have come near that warm color without looking gray by comparison. Maya Angelou
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou quote: "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change..."
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou quote: "If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it,..."
If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change you're attitude to it. Maya Angelou
Out of the huts of history's shame. I rise. Up from a past that's rooted in pain. I rise. I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear. I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear. I rise. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou quote: "Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built..."
Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size. Maya Angelou
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me. Maya Angelou
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 unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come. Maya Angelou

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