![]() We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away. If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelouĭetermine to live life with flair and laughter. I do my best because I’m counting on you counting on me. Related Read: 25 Small Acts You Can Do to Have a Great Impact Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. Maya AngelouĪ wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim. There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ![]() Related Read: Here’s How to Support Black Lives Matter (5 Simple but Effective Actions) I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’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. You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. America’s period of orgiastic lynchings had begun on yonder broad savannah.Here are the best, most inspiring Maya Angelou quotes to know: In that large clump of trees, looking like wood moss from the plane’s great height, boys and girls had been hunted like beasts, caught and tethered together. ![]() Here, there, along the banks of that river, someone was taken, tied with ropes, shackled with chains, forced to march for weeks carrying the double burden of neck irons and abysmal fear. The loneliness of women who would never know appreciation or a mite’s share of honor. The terrifying moan of my grandmother, ‘Bread of Heaven, Bread of Heaven, feed me till I want no more.’ The drugged days and alcoholic nights of men for whom hope had not been born. The jumble of poverty-stricken children sleeping in rat-infested tenements or abandoned cars. “I had never felt that Egypt was really Africa, but now that our route had taken us across the Sahara, I could look down from my window seat and see trees, and bushes, rivers and dense forest. In the face of this contradictions she must provide a blanket of stability, which warms but does not suffocate, and she must tell her children the truth about the power of white power without suggesting that it cannot be challenged.” Teachers, doctors, sales, clerks, policemen, welfare workers who are white and exert control over her family’s moods, conditions and personality, yet within the home, she must display a right to rule which at any moment, by a knock at the door, or a ring in the telephone, can be exposed as false. Beyond her door, all authority is in the hands of people who do not look or think or act like her children. Yet she is raising children who will become mates. Her singleness indicates she has rejected or has been rejected by her mate. If she is unmarried, the challenges are increased. She questions whether she loves her children enough- or more terribly, does she love them too much? Do her looks cause embarrassment- or even terrifying, is she so attractive her sons begin to desire her and her daughters begin to hate her. ![]() “The black mother perceives destruction at every door, ruination at each window, and even she herself is not beyond her own suspicion. ![]()
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