01c. 1971 ADI love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
02c. 1971 ADIf we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
03c. 1971 ADI have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
04c. 1971 ADOnce you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
05c. 1971 ADI respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
06c. 1971 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1971 ADMy mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
08c. 1971 ADThose of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
09c. 1971 ADI never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
10c. 1971 ADWhen younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
12c. 1971 ADIn the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
14c. 1971 ADWhen I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
15c. 1971 ADI work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
17c. 1971 ADLoving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
18c. 1971 ADFighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
19c. 1971 ADIt's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
20c. 1971 ADI keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
21c. 1971 ADI'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
22c. 1971 ADIndependence 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 / quote ↗
23c. 1971 ADI've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
24c. 1971 ADI've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.Maya Angelou / quote ↗
