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Maya Angelou Quotes
Maya Angelou Quotes
Maya Angelou
American
Poet
Born:
Apr 4
,
1928
Died:
May 28
,
2014
Life
Love
Me
People
Time
You
Related authors:
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
T. S. Eliot
Walt Whitman
E. E. Cummings
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou
Time
You
First
Believe
Someone
First Time
Them
Who
Shows
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou
Inspirational
Life
Passion
Compassion
Humor
Thrive
Style
Some
Merely
Mission
Survive
To Survive
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
You
Learning
People
Will
Made
Never
Never Forget
Feel
Learned
Said
How
Forget
Did
Them
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou
Love
Self-Respect
Respect
Lose
Other
Finally
Self
How
Die
Each
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
Love
Smile
You
People
Valentines Day
Give
Only
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
Must
Encounter
May
Many
Defeated
Defeats
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
Forgiveness
You
Yourself
Everybody
Gifts
Give
Greatest
Greatest Gifts
Forgive
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
Love
Hope
Destination
Walls
Hurdles
Leaps
Arrive
Fences
Jumps
Romantic
Full
Barriers
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.
Maya Angelou
God
Me
You
Blessing
Yourself
Speak
Language
Dance
Somebody
Cloud
Think
Else
Dances
Seems
Name
Like
Look
Call
Same
May
Your
Who
Prepare
Thing
Rainbow
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou
Home
Safe Place
Safe
Go
Questioned
Aches
Where
Place
Us
Lives
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
You
Events
Control
Reduced
May
Happen
Decide
Them
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
Anger
Cancer
Bitterness
Fire
Eats
Clean
Host
Like
Burns
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
Courage
Be Kind
Consistency
Practice
Other
Virtue
We Cannot
Kind
Born
Potential
Merciful
True
Generous
Without
Any
Cannot
Necessarily
Honest
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
History
Courage
Pain
Despite
Faced
Wrenching
Cannot
Again
Lived
Need
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou
Words
Down
Paper
More
Voice
Takes
Than
Human
Mean
Infuse
Them
Meaning
Deeper
Human Voice
Deeper Meaning
Set
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
Me
History
You
Dust
Down
Bitter
Rise
Dirt
Write
Like
Still
Lines
Very
May
Your
Twisted
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
Maya Angelou
Good
You
Change
Too Late
People
Never Too Late
Matter
Long
Too
Late
Everywhere
Some
Rather
Never
Like
Walking
Than
Stones
Done
Anywhere
Them
Breathing
Convinced
Speaking
Start
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
Maya Angelou
Saying
You
Fool
Be Kind
Plant
Brilliant
Will
Sense
Reap
Right Things
Kind
Tells
Wrong
Wrong Things
Know
Without
Goes
Just
Common
Common Sense
Right
Things
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
History
Book
Wonderful
Black
One Book
Black History
American
Just
Taught
Native
Native American
American History
Jewish
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
Future
Burden
Past
Threatens
Inaccessible
Confuses
Prejudice
Present
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
Life
You
Learning
Back
Able
Something
Both
Through
Throw
Catcher
Learned
Mitt
Go
Hands
Need
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
Best
Great
You
Respect
Past
Great Respect
Come
Know
Go
Person
Going
Where
Centered
Place
Then
Next
Moment
Forward
Here
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
Positive
You
Try
Seen
Sum
Sum Total
Everything
Total
Eaten
Smelled
Make
Sure
Because
Been
Heard
Forgot
Experiences
Influences
Us
Each
Ever
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
You
Courage
Important
Practice
Nothing
Other
Virtue
Virtues
Consistently
Most
Because
Without
Any
The Most Important
I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.
Maya Angelou
Thankful
Me
Grateful
Wonderful
Something
Know
Also
Pray
Praying
Heard
Person
Just
Happens
Persons
Whom
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya Angelou
You
Wise
Women
Strong
Men
Those
Strong Men
Strong Women
Wiser
Name
Come
Know
Because
Were
Existed
Braver
Where
Your
Who
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