Maya Angelou Quotes, Hair Quotes, Important Quotes

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Hair Quotes , Important Quotes

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Book Quotes

Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , People Quotes , Rainbow Quotes

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , New York Quotes , Children Quotes

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Trying Quotes

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Cute Quotes , Fashion Quotes

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Writing Quotes

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Strong Quotes , Heart Quotes

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes

Freedom is never free.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Veterans Day Quotes

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Giving Quotes , Teach Quotes

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Country Quotes , Time Quotes

Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Attitude Quotes

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Home Quotes , Giving Quotes

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Past Quotes , Moments Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Education Quotes , Mother Quotes

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you...

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Dream Quotes , Dare Quotes

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Eye Quotes

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Company Quotes , Things To Do Quotes