Maya Angelou – American Icon

Maya Angelou passed away at the age of 86 on 28 May 2014.

Rest in Peace!

Maya Angelou – American Icon

  • A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.
    – Maya Angelou
  • At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially is one had no choice.
    – Maya Angelou
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  • Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
    – Maya Angelou
  • Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
    – Maya Angelou
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  • 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
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  • God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
    ~Maya Angelou
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  • If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
    – Maya Angelou
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  • I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
    – Maya Angelou

    I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
    – Maya Angelou
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  • I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,  people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
    – Maya Angelou
  • ….
    Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
    ~Maya Angelou
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  • Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.”
    – Maya Angelou
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  • Life loves the liver.
    – Maya Angelou
  • My life has been one big joke.
    A dance that’s walked.
    A song that’s spoke.
    I laughed so hard I almost choke
    When I think about myself.
    – Maya Angelou
  • Nothing will work unless you do.
    – Maya Angelo
  • The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as an intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education-
    Maya Angelou
  • Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
    – Maya Angelou
  • “When you know better you do better.”
    ~Maya Angelou
  • We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in group, alone in races, even alone in gender.
    – Maya Angelou
  • We may encounter may defeats but we must not be defeated.
    – Maya Angelou
  • When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
    – Maya Angelou
  • You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
    – Maya Angelou

 

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