Quotes of Maya - somelinesforyou

“ I do my best because I’m counting on you counting on me. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Nothing will work unless you do. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Only equals can become friends. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ On her mother’s mission: It had to do with teaching people that we have to give respect to each other and respect this planet… that we are more alike than we are unalike… and that racism is a foolish and divisive construct. ”

- Guy Johnson

“ I think the only reason she stuck around this long is that she felt she was on a divine mission. ”

- Guy Johnson

“ She was a warrior for calm, understanding, peace, and love. ”

- Guy Johnson

“ Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. ”

- Alice Walker

“ Tell the truth, but tell it slant. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Saying nothing sometimes says the most. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. ”

- James Baldwin

“ American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. ”

- James Baldwin

“ The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ Only in the darkness can you see the stars. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary. ”

- Malcolm X

“ Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. ”

- Malcolm X
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