Maya Angelou Quotes

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

May, Defeated, Encounter

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou

Love, Time, Happen

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

Women, Men, Lonely

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou

Future, Past, Present

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou

Heart, Care, Find

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou

Giving, Soul, Found

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, Place, Fact

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou

Love, Trust, Women

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou

Truth, Between, Difference

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, Ignorance, Survive

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

Respect, Character, Struggle

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou

Nothing, Young, Knowing

Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou

Life, Loves, Liver

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou

Home, Long, Human

I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou

Person, Talent, Born

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou

Life, Between, Greedy

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou

Life, Place, Choice

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Maya Angelou

Men, Prepared, Accomplish

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou

Heart, Brain, Through

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou

Plain, Virtuous, Scarcity

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
Maya Angelou

Life, Taken, Kid

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou

Important, Heroes, Celebrate

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou

Change, Mind, Down

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou

Lucky, Million, Fantasy

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 4, 1928

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