Maya Angelou Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.
When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way ...
Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.
It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition
about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.
about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.
Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness ... all the good things.
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
Never let white folks know what you really think. If you're sad, laugh. If you're bleeding inside, dance.
You dwell in whitened castles
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats.
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats.
I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. I
At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.
I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.
She's one of our fans. She comes to the theater and allows us to curse and berate her, and that's her contribution to our struggle. Roscoe
Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.
Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.
I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.
To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.
People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.
You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.