"To describe my mother would be to..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
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“Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.”
“But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.”
“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
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“I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.”
“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”
“When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.”
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“and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.”
“Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.”
“When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"”