Maya Angelou Quotes
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
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.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
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
American memoirist
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
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