If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya AngelouStichwörter: attributed-no-source conformity unsourced normal
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
Maya AngelouStichwörter: woman feminism women-s-rights
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.
Maya AngelouStichwörter: education knowledge compassion understanding life-lessons
Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.
Maya AngelouStichwörter: words society ignorance meaning names root stain
Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, "Marguerite, forgive us, please, we didn't know who you were," and I would answer generously, "No, you couldn't have known. Of course I forgive you.
Maya AngelouI’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
Maya AngelouStichwörter: existence hope inspirational-life
Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.
Maya AngelouPretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Stichwörter: phenomenal-woman
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The“b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison.
Maya AngelouLife's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass
Maya AngelouStichwörter: humor life inspriational
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