Maya Angelou quotes

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. (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. View quote
Maya Angelou
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. View quote
Maya Angelou
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! View quote
Maya Angelou
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. View quote
Maya Angelou
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. View quote
Maya Angelou
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." View quote
Maya Angelou
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. View quote
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. View quote
Maya Angelou
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind. (Maya Angelou)
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. View quote
Maya Angelou
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. View quote
Maya Angelou
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. View quote
Maya Angelou
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. View quote
Maya Angelou
I believe that every person is born with talent. View quote
Maya Angelou
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. View quote
Maya Angelou
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise. (Maya Angelou)
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. View quote
Maya Angelou
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. View quote
Maya Angelou
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. View quote
Maya Angelou
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. View quote
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