Maya Angelou Quotes

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

Change, Attitude

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

Learning, Forget, Learned

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou

Time, Someone, Shows

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

Hope, Love, Work

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou

Valentine's Day, Love, Smile

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

Anger, Fire, Bitterness

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, Remember, Else

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

Learning, Life, Through

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou

Love, Hope, Full

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, Mother, School

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

Courage, Important, Nothing

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Music, Loneliness, Between

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou

Great, Story, Inside

Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou

Work, Nothing, Unless

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

History, Courage, Pain

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou

Love, Respect, Self

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

Beauty, Time, Strength

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

Human, Mean, Words

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou

Ignorance, Children, Talent

All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou

Time, Great, Require

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou

Life, Great, Hard

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, Place, Lives

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, Deep, Book

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, True, Cannot

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

May, Defeated, Encounter

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 4, 1928

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