Maya Angelou Quotes


Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. Maya Angelou Burden 797
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. Maya Angelou Learn 538
Be present in all things and thankful for all things. Maya Angelou Awareness 491
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg. Maya Angelou Best Life 310
All great achievements require time. Maya Angelou Time 309
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them. Maya Angelou People 274
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou beauty 209
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. Maya Angelou Deeper 164
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. Maya Angelou Literature 163
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou Music 159
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don Maya Angelou Ignorance 158
Segregation shaped me education liberated me. Maya Angelou Race 137
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. Maya Angelou Failure 134
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. Maya Angelou Home 128
I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows the dreams the fears and the dragons of home under ones skin at the extreme corners of ones eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe. Maya Angelou Home 127
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou courage 124
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Maya Angelou Travel 123
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! Maya Angelou Inspirational 118
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou Change 115
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. Maya Angelou Priority 111
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou History 107
I believe that every person is born with talent. Maya Angelou Talent 103
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou Defeat 103
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. Maya Angelou Africa 101
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. Maya Angelou Life 99
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities. Maya Angelou Reality 98
Courage the most important of all the virtues because without courage you cant practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou Strength 96
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Maya Angelou Life 95
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou Inspiration 94
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. Maya Angelou Time 94
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God. Maya Angelou Children 93
As soon as healing takes place go out and heal somebody else. Maya Angelou Healing 92
On this platform of peace we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other. Maya Angelou Peace 90
I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories Maya Angelou Death 89
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. Maya Angelou Solitude 89
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Maya Angelou Youth 87
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. Maya Angelou Love 86
Most people dont grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces honor their credit cards get married have children and call that maturity. What that is is aging. Maya Angelou Growing up 85
Ive learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way she handles these three things a rainy day lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou People 85
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. Maya Angelou Love 84
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Maya Angelou Become 83
Achievement brings its own anticlimax. Maya Angelou Achievement 83
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! Maya Angelou Celebrate 79
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. Maya Angelou Poetry 79
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou Success 79
Its the fire in my eyes And the flash of my teeth The swing in my waist And the joy in my feet. Im a woman Phenomenally. Maya Angelou Poems 78
You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated. In fact it may be necessary to encounter the defeats so you can know who you are what you can rise from how you can still come out of it. Maya Angelou Failure 75
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater. Maya Angelou Work 74
Each time a woman stands up for herself without knowing it possibly without claiming it she stands up for all women. Maya Angelou Woman 71
Have enough courage to trust love one more time. Maya Angelou Love 70

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