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  • If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Doors Quotes , Trying Quotes
  • I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , Mother Quotes
  • I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Children Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Years Quotes
  • I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Work Quotes , Doe Quotes
  • A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Love Quotes , Morning Quotes