Maya Angelou Quotes

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

I believe that every person is born with talent.

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.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

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.

It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

All great acheivements require time.

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

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

Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

Forgive yourself - no one else will.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.

Don't bring negative to my door.

Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

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

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

No not me go find someone else to bring down