I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work. Maya Angelou More Quotes by Maya Angelou More Quotes From Maya Angelou Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger. Maya Angelou stars religious rain No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn. Maya Angelou sunset dawn inspirational A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face. Maya Angelou funny-friend waiting friendship I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other. Maya Angelou thoughtful inspiring fall We, unaccustomed to courage Maya Angelou loneliness courage life You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. Maya Angelou cozy-home truth-is home The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library Maya Angelou inspirational book children I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. Maya Angelou forgiving mistake years We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. Maya Angelou words-of-wisdom learning house The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou change motivational inspirational You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come. Maya Angelou modesty humility want All great acheivements require time. Maya Angelou And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed. Maya Angelou life-changing space soul There is no place where God is not. Maya Angelou faith-in-god We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God. Maya Angelou voice silence children Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops. Maya Angelou sitting spiritual needs The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom. Maya Angelou hills tunes bird 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 chasing-rainbows moments clouds We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. Maya Angelou common-threads kwanzaa color Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. Maya Angelou ongoing dreamer adventure
