If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya AngelouRead
Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
Interpretation
Faith involves believing in what cannot be seen or proven.
In this quote, Maya Angelou emphasizes the concept of faith as a profound act of belief in things that are not visible or tangible. She suggests that true faith is rooted in conviction and trust in something beyond empirical evidence, highlighting a deeper understanding of belief and spirituality that transcends physical proof.
In practice
During a speech on hope, one might quote this to inspire the audience to believe in a better future.
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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.
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?
I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.
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.
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
Food is a weapon in austerity Britain. Hunger, the threat of and the reality of, is used to coerce and control.
I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.
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