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
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! Maya Angelou
Courage Light Will Mirror Understanding Our Say Ourselves See Rise Like According Confront Nay
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. Maya Angelou
Life Work Thankful Grateful Live Believe I Believe Very Loves Hard Liver Play
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.' Maya Angelou
You Courage Yourself Enough Else Later Say Ways Someone Take Develop Sooner Sooner Or Later Up Human Representative Race Then Really Stand Stand Up Human Race
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. Maya Angelou
Best Food Will Comfort Comfort Food Always Fried Fried Chicken Chicken Greens
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it. Maya Angelou
You Yourself Will First Enslaved Must Some Allies He He Or She She First Thing Person The First Thing Cut Convince Your Help Deserves Thing Second Third
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Maya Angelou
Travel People Try Become Other Worry Laugh Introduce Eat Prevent Idea Perhaps Cry Understand Demonstrating Friends Die May Cannot Even Each
Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else. Maya Angelou
Alone You Library Happy Somebody Lost Else Everyone Everyone Else See Only Mississippi Wept Been Any Different Information Really Tokyo Who Helps
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up. Maya Angelou
Truth People Honor Older Difficult Damn Too Find Marry Nerve Parking Most Up Get Children Spaces Happens Grow Grow Up Credit Credit Cards Cards
Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.' Maya Angelou
Life You Say OK Brought Take Reduced Just Place Which Whine Low Them Certainly Incidents Bring
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. Maya Angelou
Truth Me Man Unless Has-Been Exactly More Fact Glamorous He Know Knows How Arrived Been His Historical Than Going Africa Where Place Present
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. Maya Angelou
Truth Truth Is Free Everybody No-One Until Us
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou
Great Heart Human Heart Resource Alike Draw Tells More Than Same Human Artists Which Us
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings. Maya Angelou
Me Differences Other Allow Man-Made Any Human Refuse Human Beings Separate Beings
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. Maya Angelou
Success Nothing More Like Get Just Little Succeeds Then
I believe that every person is born with talent. Maya Angelou
Believe Every I Believe I Believe That Born Talent Person
In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?' Maya Angelou
Work You Try Say All My Work Given Make Sour May Lemon Lemons Why Why Not Dozen Load
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Maya Angelou
Young Gone Nothing He Knowing Because Pitiful Cynic Believing
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss. Maya Angelou
Knowledge Youth Valuable Some Given More Had Loss Up Than Gain
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. Maya Angelou
Myself Respect Insist Too Everybody Because Then
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. Maya Angelou
You Humanity World Circumstances Bad Must Citizens Obliged Allow Remind Like Global Disasters Know Reduce Reduced Human Anything Decide Whether Which Us Your Inheritance
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. Maya Angelou
Alone Prevail Ignorance Think Our Allow Make Survive Patches Races Us Even Groups
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter. Maya Angelou
Family Matter First Country Big White Too Virginia Neglect Neglects I See Members Cities Weaker Weakest See Around Big Cities West West Virginia Blow Human Movement Children Race Poor Human Race Kentucky Suicidal
A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Maya Angelou
Young Gone Nothing Cynical Sight See He He Or She Almost Saddest Knowing She Because Person Young Person Means Believing
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Maya Angelou
Love Age Lover Liberates Kind Someone Well Loving Beloved
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace. Maya Angelou
Life Peace Mind Playwright Our Our Lives Pen Come Quest Itself Roles Artistry Stories Create Actor Lives
I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all. Maya Angelou
Me Saves Know Sure Loves Us Here Save
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