Tag: Maya Angelou
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou
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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.
Maya Angelou
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
Maya Angelou
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I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
Maya Angelou
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The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
Maya Angelou
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Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
Maya Angelou
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Maya Angelou
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I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‘I’m a Christian.’ I always think, ‘Already? You’ve already got it?’ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.
Maya Angelou
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If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.
Maya Angelou
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I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
Maya Angelou