Maya Angelou Quotes about God

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Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, God, Children

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 30, 2013

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Maya Angelou

Life, God, Collaboration

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.18, Bantam

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

Maya Angelou

Faith, God, Christian

"Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

Maya Angelou

Life, God, Responsibility

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library