Maya Angelou Quotes — Page 28

Poet, Memoirist

Grateful

“If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?”

Strong Healthy Self Reliance

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Memoirist

Courageous

“There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. 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.”

Thinking Sleep Life Lesson

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Confident

“I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”

Heart Inspirational Decision

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Hopeful

“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.”

Heart Inspirational Life

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Peaceful

“Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.”

Inspirational Honesty Loyalty

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Grateful

“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”

Inspirational Parent Missing

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Creative

“Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.”

Important Light Creativity

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Wise

“Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.”

Inspirational Mind Differences

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Determined

“In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.”

Order Winning Disappointment

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Lonely

“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.”

Inspirational Life Motivational

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Love

“Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.”

Giving Baby Teaching

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Happy

“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”

Inspirational Life Love

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