01c. 1971 ADYou 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1971 ADYou can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'Maya Angelou / quote ↗
03c. 1971 ADThe only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
04c. 1971 ADCourage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
05c. 1971 ADWe have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!Maya Angelou / quote ↗
06c. 1971 ADWhatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
07c. 1971 ADAll great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
08c. 1971 ADI'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
09c. 1971 ADYou are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
10c. 1971 ADIn all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
11c. 1971 ADThe sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
12c. 1971 ADIt's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
13c. 1971 ADWhile the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
14c. 1971 ADWhenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
15c. 1971 ADMy mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
16c. 1971 ADMy mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
17c. 1971 ADIn so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
18c. 1971 ADI love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
19c. 1971 ADOur stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
21c. 1971 ADAt one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
22c. 1971 ADThe loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
23c. 1971 ADIf you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
24c. 1971 ADNothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
