Maya Angelou Quotes

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.

There is no place where God is not.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

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.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

Everybody is worth everything.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

I try to see every day as a celebration.

Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.

I've had rainbows in my clouds.

The desire to reach hearts is wise

Every Day you should reach out and touch someone

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.