Maya Angelou's Top 10 Rules For Success

If they mention your name and people say oh hell oh damn I think you are doing something wrong, courage is the most important of all virtues because without courage you cannot practice any other virtue, there is an African saying that says: be careful When a naked person offers you a shirt I thought I had caused the man's death because I had said his name She was an American poet and civil rights activist who is best known for her series of seven autobiographies that focus on her childhood and experiences. early adults. She was respected as a spokesperson for black people and women and her works were considered a defense of black culture.

She is Maya Angelou and here is my take on her top 10

rules

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success

. rule number one was my personal favorite and be sure to follow all the way to the end to see some special bonus clips too while she talks, if there's something she says that really resonates with you, write it in the comments and put quotes around it so others People can also be inspired. I have a painting of Phoebe. from a group she called sister suki's funeral and all the women are about nine women and they all look like women from my grandmother's prayer meeting group, so every time I'm forced to do something, I take that painting and I look in that painting there is an empty chair and I think now, what would grandmother do?

What would she say? I can almost hear her voice saying now sister, you know what's right, do the right thing, you really don't have to ask anyone, the truth is right, maybe not. Be convenient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It gives you the kind of protection that bodyguards can't give you. Try to be everything you can be, be the best human being you can, try to be that in your church. in your temple try to be it in your classroom do it because it is right to do it, you see that people will know you and they will add their prayers to your life, they will wish you the best, I think if your name is mentioned and people say oh Damn, Damn, I think you're doing something wrong, but if your name is mentioned and people say, oh, she's so sweet, he's so kind, oh, I love her, oh, God bless her, so try to live your life in a way you won't. repent of years of useless virtue, inertia and timidness take up the battle, take it up it is yours this is your life this is your world I will leave it long before you under the normal set of circumstances you make your own decisions you can Decide that life is not worth living life and that would be the worst thing you can do, how do you know until now?

Try, see, so pick up the battle and make it a better world right where you are, yes and it can be. better and it must be better but it depends on us I mentioned courage and I would like to say something more about finding courage in leaders and in you who will become leaders uh courage is the most important of all virtues because without courage you cannot practice any other virtue consistently, you see, you cannot be consistently kind, fair, humane or generous, not without courage, because if you don't have it, sooner or later you will stop and say ah, the threat.

It's too much, the difficulty is too high, the challenges are too big, you know, I think self-love is very important, if you read my work, you know, I always talk about loving yourself, I never trust anyone who tells me that or she loves me if the person doesn't love themselves there is an african saying that says be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt meaning if they had something to cover themselves first so I like to look at self love. It is very important that it comes from within that you have a sense of yourself so that when you enter an office you do not go alone, you bring your people with you, you bring everyone who has loved you, you say grandmother, come on, let's go well.

Grandpa, you've been dead all this time, come on, come on, I have to come in here and have an interview, come on, auntie, come on, my friends, come on, come on, and when you walk in, people don't know what's going on with you, they can tell. They can't take their eyes off you, you may not be pretty in the given sense, you may not be a fashion model in that particular sense, you may not be any of those things, but they can't take their eyes off you and They say: You, uh, in this incredible way, that I don't understand, they say I don't know, but she has charisma.

No, what you have is all those people around you, so think about that every time you have something to do, bring everyone with you. you can remember who has loved you and then you have that feeling that you have been paid and when you walk in people will tell you now I think you are overqualified if you don't laugh you will die you know you really should laugh and if every human being in the world would admit it, he or she is the funniest person you have ever met and the truth is that some people prefer to be a little boring and boring and you know, but the truth is that they themselves know that you are very funny um the sense of humor is in self defense against those who pretend to have no sense of humor and against the cruelties of life one must laugh there is an African American song from the 19th century that is so great that it says when it seemed that the sun was not going to shine anymore god put a rainbow in the clouds imagine and I have had so many rainbows in my clouds I had many clouds but I have had so many rainbows and one of the things I do is when I go on stage when I get up to translate when I go to teach my classes when I go to direct a film I bring with me to everyone who has ever been nice to me black white asian spanish native american gay of course, to everyone I say, come with me, I'm going to the stage, come with me, I need you now you're long dead, you see, so I will never feel like I have no help.

I've had rainbows in my clouds and what to do. It seems to me that it is preparing you so that you can be a rainbow in someone else's cloud, someone who may not look like you, cannot call God by the same name that you call God, if they call God. You see, I can't eat the same dishes. prepared the way you do you may not dance your dances or speak your language but be a blessing to someone when I was seven and a half I was raped um I won't say she was raped severely every rape is serious the rapist was a well known person .

They hospitalized my family, they let the rapist out of jail and they found him dead that night and the police suggested that the rapist had been kicked to death. I was seven and a half years old. I thought I had caused the man's death because I had spoken. his name, that was my logic for seven and a half years, so I stopped talking for five years to show you again how good can come from evil in those five years. I read every book in the black school library. I read all the books. I was able to get it at the white school library.

I memorized James and Johnson well. Paul Lawrence. Made by County Cullen and Langston Hughes. I memorized entire works of Shakespeare. 50 sonnets. I memorized Edgar Allan Poe. All the poetry without ever having heard it. I memorized it. I had plenty of time, friend. i had guido mopass on i had balzac rudyard kipling i mean it was a catholic reading and a catholic story when i decided to speak i had a lot to say and a lot of ways to say what i had to say i heard the black minister i heard the melody of the preachers and I could tell when they would start with that kind of thing when they know they want to take our soul directly to heaven or if they wanted to throw us directly into hell, I understood it that way. of this evil, which was a terrible type of evil because the violation of a young person's body often introduces cynicism and there is nothing as tragic as a cynical young person because it means that the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

In my case I was saved in that silence that you see in the surada I was saved and I was able to extract from human thought enough disappointments and human triumphs to triumph myself. We do not understand talent we do not understand electricity we probably use a billion of a billionth of a percent, that is say, less and such an infinitesimal degree that we couldn't even tell how small it is, you can plug it into two holes in the wall, you can light up a cathedral, you can light up a synagogue, you can light up you can light up a temple, you can light up a surgery or you can electrocute a person tied to a chair, electricity is not demanding, it says I am here, that's right, if you are stupid, you will use me badly, if you are smart, you will use me.

I for the advancement of your kind, well, I think that talent is like that, we don't know what it is, but a painter may be born with the sight to see depth and you understand that you must be sure, but that is physical, maybe she is. She was born with a throat that makes her sound like a bird, you know, a clear lyrical baritone soprano, but singing has very little to do with the voice. That's fine, but if it were really about the voice, Ray Charles and Willie Nelson wouldn't be mentioned, that's true. I know I just wrote a story about autism and it was, uh, people who couldn't write couldn't express themselves, but they said in tone and tone and beautifully and they can and can calculate 40 columns of three numbers each, how do they do it? talent that's talent I don't know I mean I thank God I have it but I believe that every person who is born is born with talent there is a place in you that you must keep in violation you must keep it impeccably clean so that no one has the right to curse you, treat you badly , no one, not mother, not father, not wife, not husband, knows anyone, because that can be the place you go when you meet god, you have to have a place that you said would be enough, go back, no, no You must, no, no.

Absolutely and that's what I told you 25 years ago, yes, say no when it's no, yes, say it, back it up because that place has to stay clean and clear and it has to be a place inside of you, yes, lady, yes, when you write. poetry, do you write to express your experiences or do you write to inspire other people? No, I am writing to try to say what I see, what I have seen, and of course I hope it is inspiring. When you were writing, phenomenal woman, did you realize how? Many millions of women would be inspired by that.

No, I don't realize any of that. I just do the best I can. You can write me into history with your bitter and twisted lies. You can trample me to the ground, but you still like it. Dust, okay, do you mind my sass? Why are you plagued by sadness just because I walk like I have oil wells pumping in my living room like moons and suns with the certainty of the tides like hope gushing high still I rise, did you want? Seeing myself broken, with my head bowed and my eyes downcast, my shoulders falling like tears, weakened by my moving cries, bothers my impudence.

Don't take it so personally just because I laugh like I have gold mines digging in my own backyard. You can shoot. I with your words you can cut me with your lies you can kill me with your hate but just like life, it's okay, my sensuality offends you oh, are you surprised that I dance like I have diamonds where my thighs meet? from the huts of history shame I rise from a past rooted in pain I rise to a black ocean that leaps and expands and swells and endures the tide leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise to a miraculously clear dawn I rise bringing The gifts my ancestors gave me, I am the slave's hope and dream, so come on, here I come.

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Thank you all so much for watching, keep believing or whatever your word is and we'll see you around. soon, if we have been able to stay alive, we are alive and thinking about the future, alive and having enough courage to care for each other, enough courage to love and know that we are probably one percent free, that is, that the one percent of 60 million be free from uh of complaints imagine who we would be who we would be if we were the percentage of 600 million six billion what would happen I tell you one thing I think the war would be laughed at in the room I think the same word someone said warren someone else Tell me, you mean if I'm supposed to kill someone because they don't agree with me?

I don't believe it. Imagine if people would talk more kindly to each other. Courtesy would be invited to return to the living room. To the bedroom. To the children's room. space in the kitchen if one percent of our world were free of complaints, we would care more about children and realize that every child is our child, the black and the white, the pretty, the simple, the Asian and the Muslim, the Japanese and the All Jews are our children if we only had the one percent free of complaints. Imagine if we would stop blaming other people for our mistakes and hating them because they caused the mistake in our minds.Imagine if we laughed more frequently if we had the absolute courage to touch each other it would be just the beginning of paradise now thank you