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Maya Angelou Quotes

Total quotes: 73
“You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”
— Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou on How to Write—and How to Live
Tagged: Experiences, Influece, inspiration, Positivity
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
— Maya Angelou, The Power of Time: Understanding the Cycles of Your Life's Path
Tagged: Success, self, do, purpose, Action, why, how, Mindset
“I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”
— Maya Angelou, Facebook
Tagged: Decision Making, Wise Quotes
“I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Tagged: Self-Determination
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
— Maya Angelou, The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou(Modern Library)
Tagged: beauty, Butterfly
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
— Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou on Facebook
Tagged: Ignorance, Understanding, Illiteracy, Education, kindness, Compassion, Intelligence
“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, Soul Shattering Poetry
Tagged: Marriage, Love, Perfect Love, romance, Perfect Dating, Wedding Vows, Things To Text Her
“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”
— Maya Angelou, A quote by Maya Angelou
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love
“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”
— Maya Angelou, Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
Tagged: Be yourself, kindness, humor
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
— Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou quotes
Tagged: Life, Determination, Get Into Trouble, Inspirational
“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, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Tagged: Comfort, Home, Longing, Desire, Safe Place
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
— Maya Angelou, 101 Quotes and Sayings From Maya Angelou: Inspirational Quotes From Phenomenal Woman
Tagged: Love, Trust
“The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud....”
— Maya Angelou
Tagged: Mindset, kindness, Optimism, Helping Others, rainbow
“You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.”
— Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems
Tagged: Encouragement, Bravery, strength, Courage
“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
— Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Tagged: Change
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”
— Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou via Facebook
Tagged: Life, Deep, Poetic, Positivity, Magical
“When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?”
— Maya Angelou, Here's What Maya Angelou Said To Tupac Shakur That Made Him Cry
Tagged: Inspirational
“Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise”
— Maya Angelou, Still I Rise
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, black lives matter movement, blacklivesmatter, black lives, rise, Progress, racism, History
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
— Maya Angelou, via Facebook
Tagged: Good Enough, Not Good Enough, Enough, Self love, Alone, Overthinking
“I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
— Maya Angelou, Getting There: Maya Angelou
Tagged: Learning, Knowledge, Curiosity, Intelligence
“As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings(Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations (Hardcover))
Tagged: Obstacles, Words of Wisdom
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Tagged: Friends, Strangers, Possibility
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
— Maya Angelou, An Interview with Maya Angelou
Tagged: Struggle, Overcoming, Self-issues, Perspective, Self-Acceptance
“Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.”
— Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou's "Note to Self"
Tagged: Passion, inspiration, Art
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
— Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Tagged: vacation, Relaxation, travel
“There are so many gifts, so many blessings, so many sources that I can't say any one thing—unless that one thing is love. By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God. To make it. To imagine golden roads. That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.”
— Maya Angelou
Tagged: Love, Empower, Belief, Blessings, Dreams, Potential
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
— Maya Angelou, A quote by Maya Angelou
Tagged: Freeing Words, Inspirational, Life Lessons, improve
“It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.”
— Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou: In her own words
Tagged: forgiveness, Gift
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
— Maya Angelou, The Responsible Leader: Developing a Culture of Responsibility in an Uncertain World
Tagged: Ambition, heart, Dream, Dreams, Desire, wise, Wisdom
“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.”
— Maya Angelou, via Wikiquote
Tagged: Love, beauty in love
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.'”
— Maya Angelou, The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“I am a Woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
that’s me.”
— Maya Angelou, "Phenomenal Woman"
Tagged: Being a woman, feminism
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Tagged: rainbow, Postive Thoughts
“Failure?/ I'm not ashamed to tell you it,/ I never learned to spell it./ Not failure.”
— Maya Angelou, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Failure Quotes, Shame
“What mother and daughter understand each other, or even have sympathy for each other's lack of understanding”
— Maya Angelou, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: mother, Daughter, Understanding
“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Cage bird Sings
Tagged: Banned Books
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Tagged: Perspective, Optimism, breathe
“You may write me down in history 
with your bitter, twisted lies. 
You may trod me in the very dirt 
but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”
— Maya Angelou, Still I Rise
Tagged: feminism, strength, Self love, Poetry, Spilled Ink, Inspirational, Girl Power
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
— Maya Angelou, via Facebook
Tagged: Strong Women, Female Empowerment, feminism, Being a woman, Strong Woman
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”
— Maya Angelou, Strong Women Quotes
Tagged: Maya Angelou, Women
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