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Maya Angelou

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first: 2023-04-04
most recent: 2023-04-04
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“Meya me the very person who's made all these mistakes. Blown it so many times. Who's been rude and unkind too many times short tempered when the Bible ask you or suggest be patient? Have patience, have courtesy, have gentleness. If a friend wants to make a or an enemy for that matter wants to make up with you, you go further toward the reconciliation How many times should you forgive seven times seventy? No, seventy times seventy and on and on. And I know that, but I blow it all the time. However, at the end of the evening when I check myself out, and I think, well, I only blew it nine hundred twenty two times today. Okay, then I ask forgiveness and I forgive myself. Very important. I have to forgive myself, knowing that I meant to do right, and I hope tomorrow just be eight hundred ninety nine times, you see.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hold it all. Each time that was in nineteen fifty three forty years ago, each time I allow myself to say the words I am suffused with tears of gratitude and wonder. And I am reestablished as a giving, living, full human being, with every right to everything right on this earth.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well I live in this world and I want to know. And I want their lives to be a part of my life. My neighbors around when I went to a birthday party given to me by my sweetheart. A few weeks ago Little Bitty Children, some small people about that tall, stood outside in the dark singing These are little white children and maybe a couple of black ones. Today the children came. They come, they feel, that's Dr. Angelo. She's a friend of mine. And so these small people, some blonde, some brown skinned, some dark, some black, some Asian, they come and they stand in the door and I sit on the top of the step. And I said, talk to me. Tell me what is. Well, you see, Di Angelo, here's what happened because And they feel very fine.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's so gorgeous. It's like looking at At a beautiful bouquet of roses or flowers rather. And our group of people. I love that colors of people, don't you? I mean, black, brown, blue, red, yellow, pink, white, yellows, tawny, copper colored God, I love that. But I like to feel it, I like to hold food, produce and meats and fowl, and I love to cook it and prepare it and present it to people I like. I like all of that.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, when you go into a market and you see yellow peppers and green peppers and cucumbers and eggplant and tomatoes and onions, I mean, the range of color.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I do. I'm sorry to say they don't approve of themselves for being alive. That is exactly it. They don't say I must have some reason for being in this world. They can't say that. And unfortunately, they have looked to someone else for approval.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is, yeah. I'm not acting as nobly as I know I could or should or must. But I do approve of myself of being alive. Now you see, as long as you do that, you leave yourself room to grow.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, you can say, Well, I'm alive, and I thank God for that. And so, I mean, I did something very dumb yesterday, and I don't like that. I'm not seeing as profoundly or acting as nobly. And that's a really important word.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and doubt. Sometimes it isn't even strong enough to be loathing, which can be turned around. It's just doubt. It's indecisions, confusion. You can't love yourself all the time, but what you can do is approve of yourself for living.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there too, or maybe 2000 reasons. The caged bird sings because it must it must or die. It may be it must and die, I don't know, but it must sing. Sometimes the melody arrived at in the cage is much more fetching, much more appealing, much more profound, much more poignant than the melody arrived at by the bird who's on the loose. The cage bird sings with a fearful trill. Its song is heard on the distant hill, for the cage bird sings of freedom freedom. Let me out of here. Let me out of here. And so there is something universal about that song since all of us are caged in some way or another. And so people can hear it and say, oh yes, oh Lord, let that bird out you know, at least I feel for the bird.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think so. I've heard that that's what it was supposed to be. Really? You know that it was supposed to be in its own wake, cathartic and that. I don't know about that. I didn't feel that I had doffed a particular mortal coil, you know. I felt I had tried to write the truth and write it eloquently. But I don't know. You know, that I never agreed with Thomas Wolfe's statement that you can't go home again. My belief is you never can leave home. You take it with you”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had that unfortunately for a number of years. It was 13 before I really started talking again. But I loved to listen, so I would go into rooms and just think of my whole body as being an ear And I could just take in sound. And it's that which allows me to speak so many languages. I simply open myself to sound, and when I speak I have very little accent, American accent, certainly, but I speak Spanish, and I have a Mexican accent. My Spanish is Mexican, and because I said we are love it and we have learned it, my French is good.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I knew I had been violated, I knew that, I knew I had that he had done something wrong, but I also thought I had done something wrong, because he used to hold me, you see, and I loved that. So then I thought well, maybe I did it, maybe I made him do it.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At the age of seven and a half. And I told the name of the rapist to my brother who then told it to the family, and the man was put in jail for one day he was released and about two days later I was at my maternal grandmother's house and the police came in and said the man had been kicked to death and I thought my voice had killed him so I thought it would be wise for me not to speak. There was my seven and a half year old logic. If I spoke people might die just randomly. After about a year and a half I forgot why I stopped speaking.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe I knew it long before I knew I knew it. I was a mute for many years, and words meant so much to me. I loved to hear people talk, and even today I must confess I've never heard a human voice I didn't enjoy. Never any way people sound pleases me. I've hated some of the things they've said, but the actual voice I love the human voice more than anything probably.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Those things that change us for the better, the prayers, the kind words, the sweetness, the laughter, when somebody's this girl you looking good, and something happens. You think you're only hearing it, but something is happening positively.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's that sticking tone. That's that theme. I believe it is a tangible. It's just that we can't see it. And although we do touch it, we don't know what we are touching. And it is touching us and changing us.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yes, it's too dangerous It is too dangerous, you see. fifty years ago, Ophra Nobody would have believed that there would be one day a button you could turn and see what was happening in Paris. If you'd said listen, one day I'll be able to see what's happening in Bosnia And people would have put you right into the snake pit. I believe that words are things some day we'll be able to know and measure as mad as it sounds. We'll be able to measure the hostility or the kindness that emanates from certain words that people exude when they say certain things. And I think they stick on the walls, they go into the upholstery, they go into your clothes, and finally into your very body. I believe that.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If I were white, there would be no way possible that I would sit in company, any company, in my family, and have somebody called a nigger or kike or a whop, or Dago, or Greaser or something. I will not sit in my company with all black people, with my family, and have anybody called a honky, I will not do it. I say not here, you don't That's poison, dear heart. I won't have it”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's hard to do. You know I know. And something. You see, that too is killing. Because something dives inside you. It dies inside you when you do that.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then suddenly the whole office turns, and I'm the pariah. But if I have courage, if I have courage I can continue to be fair.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But if I have courage, I have to say, excuse me, I'm sorry, you cannot insult people in front of me with my approval, I'm sorry. Now, so this person goes to the boss and says, You know Maya Angelou, you know that she's soft on gauges”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you can do it erratically, but not consistently. You can be erratically generous. You can be erratically forgiving. You can be erratically merciful and even just, but not consistently without courage, because what happens is suppose I decide I'm going to be not tolerant but understanding and generous to gaze. That's because I know it's right to be. And I'm going to do it. And then suddenly somebody in my job says, you know, this guy is gay, you know what that means? Or somebody said, well, you know, she's the laz, and you know what that means Now, if I know my job depends upon it. I'm subject to say yeah.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I laugh so, and I thank you for it. The greater the teacher, the more apt and eager she or he is to learn. Sometimes when I talk to you, I think this child talks to twenty million people every day. Let me pray on this and I will say I'll talk to you later and I will pray so that I am as close to right as possible. I continued to learn because of the people who do listen, and this is I must say that about you I love you, of course, but I love the fact that you listen. Now you may go on and do something altogether other.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm learning. I am learning right now I am learning. One of the joys for me in having you to talk to is I have no compunction about saying to you this is my trouble and I'm working on this and you say well I don't think so I don't think that's right.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't have the courage to say stop it. You do them a favor, not only yourself. You do them the favor of not having to do that again to somebody who will actually knock their heads off. You understand?”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not me out get out Now I have lost or left a lot of men who you know just in public would say something like Well Maya, I don't know why she wore that dress this is not the dress that looks good on her I said that's the end That's it. So the man, then, when we get home, because I start packing his clothes, he says, you take everything to the max, as he is because I know that once you take that flange off my nostril, pull one patch out of my hair, and I don't say anything the next thing you'll have me bald. Oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no, no.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Many times. I mean, it hasn't stopped. I'm sure that it's happened today. But the thing is, I encourage you. And I have two other people who I consider daughters, the Black Rose in San Francisco and a girl, a woman in West Africa Araba. If I could have had daughters, you three would have been the three out of chosen. My encouragement is to stop it as soon as soon as you hear it, as soon as you sense. This person wants me dead. The person just walks in and says, Oh, you're putting on weight, huh? You say, Stop it. Not me, you don't. Not mean to”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, they'll take the flange off your nostril and a bit of the lobe of your ear, hoping that you didn't even notice it, you see. And that's called blow bit and blow. That means that you blow on something until it becomes anesthesized, quickly bite and then blow again. And the person doesn't even know he's been bitten. You see, West Africans call that blow bit and blow. So people do that, and that's my son's phrase pecked to death by ducks.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're not in it. It's true. They would have done that without you. This is what you have to realize. And this is true of the rape victim. You see that understanding is as broad as life is, so that the rape victim so often thinks that she is in it or he is in it. That same rapist would have done somebody else.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I said, You are not in that and you said, yes, but you see, this is what they said. And I said, yes, but you are not in it. Yes, but and then I heard you start to realize what I was saying that that has nothing to do with you, that has all and everything to do with the perpetuator. And he or she are they are going to get their living out of you getting your dying. And so obviously you can't give in to that because you are not in it.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You got it, but you get it on so many levels. You see, there's a phrase used in West Africa, deep talk. Meaning that you, anybody, will understand on a certain level. People who are interested in really understanding more take that statement or that lesson a little deeper. Somebody else will take it even deeper. And the West Afric suggests you can never understand completely. Even at eighty, as far down as you take that aphorism or as far down as you take the adage or the advice, you could still go deeper if you'd live long enough. So, when I told you the first time you called and some newspaper tabloid tabloid had just vilified you or Steadman or both and you were really as close to losing it. He was so hurt by the erroneous and ridiculous and cruel accusations that you were just hardly getting your breath.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very, very well known, and I was a dancer and just trying. And he stayed in my house. So he had these people come over. His favorites come over every Saturday, and we would read the Bible and read lessons in truth. And it fell my turn to read. I was in my own home, which was beautiful home. And I read God loves me. And he said, Read it again. And I said God loves me. And he said read it again. And he was embarrassing me in front of all these people, these older, well known I said God loves me. He said, Now try to know it. And I said God loves me. It's still the skies open up. I can do anything anything I want to do anything good anything helpful I can do it You see? That is the greatest”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It would be ungrateful of me to say it was not, it was a great, proud moment. Sometimes people think that the public recognition is the greatest thing that can happen to one. I don't know if that is so. I think some private revelations may be greater, and I don't know, you know, the poet also must know that all comparisons are odious, so you can't say this was greater than that. I think one of the great moments, the great moment in my life happened in nineteen fifty three. I was with a teacher, Frederick Wilkinson, who was a voice teacher and also a kind of spiritual teacher. And he had a number of students, opera singers, all white and all.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I loved it. I loved it. I thank you. I gave it to God, really. I had the poem. I'm sorry to say I left out in the speaking a line which included the Italian-Hungarians and Poles, but that was included in the official poem. But I gave my energy to God and said if this is what you want done I will do it. So I stepped into the poem That's all and I gave the poem.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You filled my hotel with flowers. You filled it with your love, every flower there was, floating around and standing up alone and helped and propped up.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the tree is my grandmother's favorite song, which was I shall not I shall not be removed I tell her mamma it is not removed she said yes, sister mamma no I shall not I shall not be removed just like a tree that's slanted by the wall shall not be moved to”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Iraq came from the 19th century spiritual. Oh there's no hiding place down here. Oh I went to the rock to hide my face, Rock cried out no hiding place no hiding place down here So the rock came from that river from deep rivers”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I didn't have enough time. A wonderful line of a journalist said to his or her editor, said, OK, here's this piece you ask for. It's 20 pages. If you'd have given me another week, I could have made it ten pages. That's it. Another few months with that poem. But I'll write another poem. Oh, yes.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just wrote reams, really. And then came the work of reducing it. It's a good poem, I know that. It could have been great.”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know his wife, Linda Bloodborth Thomason. Years And I thought, oh boy, they're going to ask me to write something for designing”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Lift up your hearts. Each new hour holds new chances for new beginnings. Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness, the horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. Here, on the pulse of this fine day, you may have the courage to look up and out and upon me, the rock, the river, the tree, your country, no less to Midas than the mendicant, no less to you now than the Mastodon then. Here on the pulse of this new day, you may have the grace to look up and out and into your sister's eyes and into your brother's face, your country, and say simply, very simply with hope. Good”
2023-04-04 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Conversations with Oprah: Maya Angelou · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source