Maya Angelou Quotes

Maya Angelou
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
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' Maya Angelou
Life You Kid Taken Go Loves
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
God Myself Remember Creation Else Everyone Everyone Else Everything Everything Else Obligated Know Also Am While Realize
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou
Time Strength People Parents Diversity Beauty Young Young People Teach Early
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good. Maya Angelou
Time Good You Yourself Fear Space Responsibility Living Out Some Take Know Occupy Doing Came Up Antidote Timidity Just Afraid Being Dying Then Full Here
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
Work Love Hope Great Courage Try Somebody Laugh Great Hope Cry Return Accept Get Done To Love Much
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent. Maya Angelou
Best World Worth Way Ourselves Tell Kind Telling Talk Talked Accept Courtesy Very Intelligent Than Any Quite Anybody Being Then Less
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. Maya Angelou
Truth Justice Struggle Rights Impossible Air Civil Civil Rights Blacks Fair Like Fair Play Equal Equal Rights Because Without None Us Whites Including Play
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.' Maya Angelou
Forgiveness You Courage Finished Enough Say Having Without Up Forgive Loving Mean Sentimentality Stand Stand Up Mush
Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. Maya Angelou
Cancer Bitterness Object Eats Host Anything Displeasure
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. Maya Angelou
Love Beautiful Music Art You Fall Franklin Van Van Gogh Find Admire John Some More Aretha Aretha Franklin Coltrane Beautiful Art Like Piece Gogh Human Just Human Beings Realize Created Less Chopin Beings Oliver
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. Maya Angelou
Time Myself Me Experience Long Long Time Own Others Side I Can My Own Long Time Ago Wisest Like Learned Advocate Thing
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
Education Ignorance People School Mother College Some People Understanding Intolerant Unable Must Some More Said Always Educated Go Were Intelligent Than Illiteracy Professors
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. Maya Angelou
Love Light Will Be Brave Free Sets Flush Dare See Only Costs Only Love Brave Which Us Suddenly Ever
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do. Maya Angelou
You Grateful People Intelligence Mother Old Black Rely Had Wit Know Call Educated Womb Intellectual Intelligent Intelligent People Mean Really Old People Means Your Used Right
The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled. Maya Angelou
You Hair Important Big Thong I Can Tell Some About Beads Wrinkled Feel Most Most Important Thing Important Thing The Most Important Want Really Your Aging Skirt Even Thing
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Maya Angelou
Love Walk Mountains Other Dare Ourselves Some Someone Write Talk Because Within Makes Climb Oceans Same Human Impulse Want Human Beings Explain To Love Us Reason Paint Who Swim Beings Why
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. Maya Angelou
Love Great You Whatever Able Sacrifices Make Want To Love
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. Maya Angelou
Day Me Prayer Church Sunday Long Practice Monday Every Sick Gatherings Every Sunday Took Meeting Those All Day Visit Wednesday Thursday Missionary Friday Tuesday Board Mean Then Grandmother Choir Sang Usher Evening Night
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life. Maya Angelou
Life Food You Sit Intimate Table Eating Someone Invite Inviting Very Person Want Sensual Them Cook Your
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. Maya Angelou
Other Alike Recognize Ourselves See More Learn Than Human Human Beings Beings Each
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou
Good Needs Book Reading Habit Make Him Continuing His Child Any Form Deep Helps
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me. Maya Angelou
Myself Needs Me People Before Pay Humility Else I Can Someone Reminds Come Does Been May Us Paid Who Prepare Here Need
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are. Maya Angelou
History You Liberated More Know Your
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.' Maya Angelou
God You Book Wonderful Thank You Baby Laugh Puppy Brother Open Read Said Dear Prayed Thank Whenever Children Want Anywhere Letters Recently
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. Maya Angelou
Alone Will Politicians Aims Our Independent High Must High Ground Follow Various Obscenity Democratic Continue Sink According Proceed Republican Mud Ground Set
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. Maya Angelou
Work Myself Fool Liar Hypocrite Will Pay Say Those Would Would-Be I Write Seem Write Reader Dues Hears Any Going Behind Really Who
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