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Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.”
¯ Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
¯ Maya Angelou

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”
¯ Maya Angelou, Poems

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.”
¯ Maya Angelou

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
of things unknown but longed for still
and his tune is heard on the distant hill
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
¯ Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Caged Bird

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream till the current ends
and dips his wing in the orange suns rays and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage
can seldom see through his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
of things unknown but longed for still
and his tune is heard on the distant hill
for the caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

“When Great Trees Fall

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.

When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.

Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.

And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”
¯ Maya Angelou

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.”
¯ Maya Angelou

All great achievements require time.”
¯ Maya Angelou

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
¯ Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Nothing will work unless you do.”
¯ Maya Angelou

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
¯ Maya Angelou

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”
¯ Maya Angelou

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”
¯ Maya Angelou

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”
¯ Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
¯ Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies.
You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.”
¯ Maya Angelou

Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”
¯ Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”
¯ Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”
¯ Maya Angelou

“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
¯ Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.”
¯ Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.”
¯ Maya Angelou

“I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
¯ Maya Angelou

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.”
¯ Maya Angelou

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