01c. 1971 ADI'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
02c. 1971 ADEating 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1971 ADThe best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
05c. 1971 ADI learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
06c. 1971 ADWe are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
07c. 1971 ADIf we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
08c. 1971 ADI'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
09c. 1971 ADIt's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
10c. 1971 ADYou may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
11c. 1971 ADHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
12c. 1971 ADWon't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
14c. 1971 ADElimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
15c. 1971 ADHold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'Maya Angelou / quote ↗
16c. 1971 ADI know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
17c. 1971 ADThe thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
18c. 1971 ADWhile 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1971 ADIt is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
20c. 1971 ADThere's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
21c. 1971 ADMost people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
23c. 1971 ADOne isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
24c. 1971 ADI think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
