Maya Angelou Quotes
There is no agony
like bearing an untold story inside of you.
~ Maya Angelou ~
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
Life's a bitch.
You've got to go out and kick ass
~ Maya Angelou ~
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else,
you will have succeeded.
~ Maya Angelou ~
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou ~
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself
which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
~ Maya Angelou ~
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 ~
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
~ Maya Angelou ~
The idea is to write it so that people hear it
and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
~ Maya Angelou ~
The honorary duty of a human being
is to love.
~ Maya Angelou ~
While I know myself as a creation of God,
I am also obligated to realize and remember that
everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
~ Maya Angelou ~
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street
and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
~ Maya Angelou ~
You may encounter many defeats,
but you must not be defeated.
In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats,
so you can know who you are,
what you can rise from,
how you can still come out of it.
~ Maya Angelou ~
The fact that the adult American Negro female
emerges a formidable character
is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence.
It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome
of the struggle won by survivors,
and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
~ Maya Angelou ~
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate
our heroes and she-roes!
~ Maya Angelou ~
If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Don't complain.
~ Maya Angelou ~
