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Maya Angelou Quotes

Total quotes: 38
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
— Maya Angelou, 20 Memorable Veteran’s Day Quotes
Tagged: Hero, Veterans
“In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”
— Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry
Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, Bravery, Free
“He held me so softly that I wished he wouldn’t ever let me go. I felt at home.”
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Tagged: Hug, Romantic, Home
“I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'it is here in my heart and mind and memories.'”
— Maya Angelou, When I Think of Death
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Death, Loss, heart, Mind, Memories
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
— Maya Angelou
Tagged: Prejudice, Judgement, Mindset
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
— Maya Angelou, What We Can All Learn From Maya Angelou
Tagged: Passion, Career, 20-something
“We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.”
— Maya Angelou, Touched By An Angel
Tagged: Love Poem, Afraid Of Love
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
— Maya Angelou
Tagged: Music, Refuge, Mindset, Escape
“Her large hips fluttered as if a bird, imprisoned in her pelvis was attempting flight.”
— Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman
Tagged: Woman Quotes, Self Worth, Love, Flight
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”
— Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman
Tagged: Fantasy, Reality, Transform
“In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.”
— Maya Angelou, Touched By An Angel Poem by Maya Angelou - Poem Hunter
Tagged: Maya Angelou, Beautiful, Nature, Love, Inspiring
“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
— Maya Angelou
Tagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
— Maya Angelou, 100 Inspiring Quotes About Moms for 100 Years of Mother's Day
Tagged: I Love You Mom, Motherhood, Love, Pure Love, Unconditional Love, Family Love
“I'm young as morning
and fresh as dew.
Everybody loves me
and so do you.”
— Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Youth, Free, Fresh, Love, Selfie Captions
“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
— Maya Angelou
Tagged: Hate, Prejudice, Judgement, Problems, Acceptance
“Give me your hand
Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.”
— Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry
Tagged: Love Poem
“Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.”
— Maya Angelou, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Poems, Alone
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
— Maya Angelou, I Had a Nice Time And Other Lies...: How to find love & sh*t like that
Tagged: Dating Advice, Guy Advice, Relationship Advice
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Tagged: Growth, Innocence
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up... We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Tagged: 20 somethings, Marriage, Growing Up
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Tagged: rainbow, Postive Thoughts
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