Quotes about inspirational
inspirational song lonely
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness. Maya Angelou
inspirational children child-of-god
I am a child of God. I always carry that with me. Maya Angelou
inspirational life positive
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. Don't complain. Maya Angelou
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You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down. Maya Angelou
inspirational language platforms
On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other. Maya Angelou
inspirational forever faces
I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it. Maya Angelou
inspirational motivational hate
The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. Maya Angelou
inspirational motivational positive
People will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
inspirational motivational respect
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. Maya Angelou
inspirational family powerful
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society. Maya Angelou
inspirational given expected
To those who are given much, much is expected. Maya Angelou
inspirational positive inspiring
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. Maya Angelou
inspirational inspiring courage
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou
inspirational heart giving
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait. Maya Angelou
inspirational parent missing
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. Maya Angelou
inspirational life motivational
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise! Maya Angelou
inspirational truth men
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. Maya Angelou
inspirational motivational inspiring
I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me. Maya Angelou
inspirational light mirrors
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! Maya Angelou
inspirational motivational children
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. Maya Angelou
inspirational life-changing failure
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. Maya Angelou
inspirational book reading
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. Maya Angelou
inspirational life what-matters
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. Maya Angelou
inspirational life thanksgiving
Be present in all things and thankful for all things. Maya Angelou
inspirational strength education
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. Maya Angelou
inspirational family cousin
I sustain myself with the love of family. Maya Angelou
inspirational happiness education
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou
inspirational save-me knows
I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all. Maya Angelou
inspirational wise insperational
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. Maya Angelou
inspirational positive art
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou
inspirational-life journey my-journey
Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. Maya Angelou
inspirational inspiring grateful
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. Maya Angelou
inspirational life taken
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' Maya Angelou