Air Quotes by Maya Angelou

9 Air quotes by Maya Angelou

Angelou’s nine lines give a quick, resonant glimpse into her poetic voice as it touches the intangible, offering inspiration in a compact package.

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But still, like air, I'll rise

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We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the…

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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember…

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People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.

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I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for…

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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are…

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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the…

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When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't…

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There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with…

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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you…

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“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,…

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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and…

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I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a…

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take…

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