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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.Collection: Maya
If 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.Collection: Maya
Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.Collection: Maya
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!Collection: Maya
At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.Collection: Maya
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.Collection: Maya
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.Collection: Maya
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.Collection: Maya
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.Collection: Maya
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.Collection: Maya
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'Collection: Maya
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.Collection: Maya
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.Collection: Maya
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'Collection: Maya
A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.Collection: Maya
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.Collection: Maya
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.Collection: Maya
I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.Collection: Maya
Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.Collection: Maya
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.Collection: Maya
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.Collection: Maya
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.Collection: Maya
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.Collection: Maya
Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.Collection: Maya
I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.Collection: Maya
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.Collection: Maya
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.Collection: Maya
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.Collection: Maya
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.Collection: Maya
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.Collection: Maya
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.Collection: Maya
I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.Collection: Maya
I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.Collection: Maya
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.Collection: Maya
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.Collection: Maya
I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.Collection: Maya
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.Collection: Maya
I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.Collection: Maya
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.Collection: Maya
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.Collection: Maya
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.Collection: Maya
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.Collection: Maya
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.Collection: Maya
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.Collection: Maya
The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.Collection: Maya
I believe that every person is born with talent.Collection: Maya
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.Collection: Maya
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.Collection: Maya
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.Collection: Maya
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?'Collection: Maya