Maya Angelou Quotes

We have it in us to be splendid.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes

Facts can obscure the truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Facts Quotes

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Changing Quotes , Long Quotes

Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Baby Quotes , Teaching Quotes

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Jealousy Quotes , Envy Quotes

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Loneliness Quotes

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Family Quotes

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes

And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , People Quotes

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Positive Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Motivational Quotes

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Death Quotes

It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Hair Quotes , Hands Quotes

In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Appreciation Quotes , Children Quotes

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Changing Quotes

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Changing Quotes , Would Be Quotes

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Strength Quotes

I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Good Life Quotes , Mean Quotes