It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Category Archive: Maya Angelou
I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
I’m a serious aficionada of country music – Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I’ve even written some songs. They haven’t done anything of mine yet. But it’s only a matter of time.