Home / Quotes / Quote by Maya Angelou

Quote by Maya Angelou

“I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.”

Quote by Maya Angelou

Author

Maya Angelou was an American author, poet, playwright, actress, and lecturer, known for her profound exploration of race, gender, and culture in her work. Her autobiographical works, including 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' which detailed her early life of poverty and sexual exploitation, have gained widespread acclaim. more

You May Also Like

“I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.”

Dies Accepting Fate Climbing Incapable

Author:Walter Bonatti

“I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.”

Matter Body Dies Accepting Our Lives Consequence No Matter What Temporary Climbing

Author:John Bachar

“We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.”

Feelings Scene Late Too Late Climbing

Author:Galen Rowell

“Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.”

Ifs Individual Responsibility Reflection Climbing Routes Chisels Reflection Of Yourself

Author:Ron Kauk

“Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?”

Past Passion Sports Can Do Harder Technique Faster Climbs Climbing Sophisticated Better Off Refined

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different. Maybe you train really hard on a sport climbing and get tunnel vision for a while, but as soon as you burn out a bit, you concentrate on another aspect, like traveling. You see the world through the vehicle of climbing.”

World Different Hard Bits Sports Vision Aspect Train Boring Climbing Vehicle Tunnels Burn Out Tunnel Vision

Author:Wolfgang Gullich

“At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.”

Self Moments Existence Steps Ordinary Importance Extraordinary Climbing Finest Sense Of Self Self-importance Stripping Ordinary Moments Finest Moments

Author:Doug Scott

“In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.”

Seems Culture Poor Style Mines Ethics Dirty Climbing Acceptable

Author:Leo Houlding

“You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.”

Remember Sex Dangerous Safe Climbing

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.”

Pressure Climbs Climbing Only Love Sponsors

Author:Ron Kauk