Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross Maya Angelou More Quotes by Maya Angelou More Quotes From Maya Angelou My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still. Maya Angelou love-life inspiring believe 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 family powerful inspirational The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. Maya Angelou truth-is I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something. Maya Angelou illness trying thinking In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?' Maya Angelou why-not pie trying When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. Maya Angelou mind hair writing Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication. Maya Angelou communication writing mean 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 respect motivational inspirational Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.' Maya Angelou incidents place-in-life lows I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve. Maya Angelou good-friend mother feelings On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden. Maya Angelou garden real play Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more. Maya Angelou 4th-of-july wine brain Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life. Maya Angelou sensual tables want Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Maya Angelou one-day past needs It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me. Maya Angelou wells god-love faith-in-god There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity. Maya Angelou soul mind thinking Life loves the person who dares to live it. Maya Angelou love-life dare life Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them. Maya Angelou tomorrow responsibility children The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. Maya Angelou draws blood You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. ' Maya Angelou race enough way
