If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?
Maya AngelouTags: females
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss
Maya AngelouTags: wisdom life knowledge youth
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Maya AngelouTags: intelligence attributed-no-source education knowledge attributed unsourced
Being free is as difficult and as perpetual — or rather fighting 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 Moslem or a good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up in the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
Maya AngelouTags: freedom
You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.
Maya AngelouTags: freedom
I think that everyone thought that the Depression like everything else, was for the white-folks, so it had nothing to do with them.
Maya AngelouGlory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross
Maya AngelouTags: glory desolation dirge jack-goldenberg
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
Maya Angelouremember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.
Maya AngelouTags: mother life-lessons decency
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.
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