Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
MAYA ANGELOUPoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
MAYA ANGELOUWhen you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
MAYA ANGELOUIn all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
MAYA ANGELOUYou 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 ANGELOUI sustain myself with the love of family.
MAYA ANGELOUThe ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
MAYA ANGELOUThe best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
MAYA ANGELOUWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
MAYA ANGELOUWe spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
MAYA ANGELOUWithout courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
MAYA ANGELOUA friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
MAYA ANGELOUYou may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
MAYA ANGELOUSuccess is loving life and daring to live it.
MAYA ANGELOUMaking a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
MAYA ANGELOUA woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
MAYA ANGELOUI don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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