Maya Angelou Quotes
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Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings
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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
— Maya Angelou
I was always yours to have.You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out of time. — Maya Angelou
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
— Maya Angelou
My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.
— Maya Angelou
I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
— Maya Angelou
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.
— Maya Angelou
Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
— Maya Angelou
Drinks on the closed-in porch. The exactness of her
— Maya Angelou
People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.
— Maya Angelou
Don't face the day until you've faced God.
— Maya Angelou
I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.
— Maya Angelou
Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
— Maya Angelou
At our best, we're all teachers
— Maya Angelou
A societies needs determines their ethics
— Maya Angelou
Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.
— Maya Angelou
Y'all dropped the ball and you should be shamed.
— Maya Angelou
Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.
— Maya Angelou
Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.
— Maya Angelou
Parents who tell their offspring that sex is an act performed only for procreation do everyone a serious disservice.
— Maya Angelou
Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.
— Maya Angelou
Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
— Maya Angelou
Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
— Maya Angelou
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
— Maya Angelou
Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
— Maya Angelou
Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.
— Maya Angelou
You never get over the fear of writing.
— Maya Angelou
Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
— Maya Angelou
I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.
— Maya Angelou
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.
— Maya Angelou
Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.
— Maya Angelou
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!
— Maya Angelou
The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me, because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today.
— Maya Angelou
He so routinely disparaged other people's importance that he didn't notice he was degrading me.
— Maya Angelou
The man who is a bigot,is the worst thing God has got,
except his match, his woman,
who really is Ms. Begot. — Maya Angelou
Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.
— Maya Angelou
Thus we lived through a major war. The questions in the ghettos was, can we make it through a minor peace?
— Maya Angelou
People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.
— Maya Angelou
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
— Maya Angelou
I have learned to accept my responsibility and to forgive myself first, then to apologise to anyone injured by my misreckoning.
— Maya Angelou
One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority.
— Maya Angelou
Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt
— Maya Angelou
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
— Maya Angelou
If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?
— Maya Angelou
Before he could bring his lips together, his teeth fell, no, actually his teeth jumped, out of his mouth.
— Maya Angelou
I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.
— Maya Angelou
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
— Maya Angelou
The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.
— Maya Angelou
Annie, everybody has a policy. In this world you have to have a policy. Now, my policy is I don't treat colored people.
— Maya Angelou
People will forget what you say, they will forget what you do, but they never will forget how you make them feel." - Dr. Maya Angelou
— Don R Crawley
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. - Maya Angelou.
— Jasinda Wilder
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
— Maya Angelou
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
— Maya Angelou
I've had rainbows in my clouds.
— Maya Angelou
When we know better, we do better.
— Maya Angelou
It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness.
— Maya Angelou
Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily
— Maya Angelou
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. - Maya Angelou
— Brene Brown
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
— Maya Angelou
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
— Maya Angelou
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
— Maya Angelou
The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
— Maya Angelou
You can never be great at anything unless you love it.
— Maya Angelou
A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning. He
— Maya Angelou
I come as one, but stand as 10,000.
— Maya Angelou
I know something better is on the road for me.
— Maya Angelou
Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The
— Maya Angelou
It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.
— Maya Angelou
Look for the beauty in things.
— Maya Angelou
Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.
— Maya Angelou
Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?
— Maya Angelou
Life was cheap and death entirely free.
— Maya Angelou