Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 2

American - Poet April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014 Read full biography

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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.

Man, Truth, Me, Place, Know, Present

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.

Work, Myself, Fool, Liar, Hypocrite, Say

If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Fool, Be Kind, You, Saying, Plant, Know

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

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

Fire, Anger, Bitterness, Clean, Like

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. - Maya Angelou

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Life, Woman, Great, I Am, Grateful, Done

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.

Love, Great, You, Want, Whatever, Make

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.

Struggle, Truth, Justice, Impossible

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!

Mirror, Light, Courage, Understanding

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

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

Success, Heart, You, Care, Find, Will

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. - Maya Angelou

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Food, Cooking, Someone, Expression, Just

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

Ignorance, Me, People, Rich, Stupidity

All great achievements require time. - Maya Angelou

All great achievements require time.

Time, Great, Achievements, Require

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.

Children, Truth, People, Honor, Grow

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

Best, Food, Always, Comfort, Chicken

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.

See, Learn, Human, More, Than, Alike

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.

Life, Peace, Mind, Pen, Create, Actor

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.

Best, World, Worth, Way, Courtesy, Talk

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Home, Place, Us, Go, Safe, Where

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Bitterness, Anything, Cancer, Host, Eats

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me. - Maya Angelou

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Education, Me, Segregation, Ways, Many

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

Courage, Pain, History, Need, Lived

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

Words, Down, Voice, Meaning, Human, More

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

Good, Change, People, Walking, You, Long

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

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

Life, Loving, Greedy, Line, Being, Fine

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

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

Celebrate, Important, Us, Heroes, Our

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

Time, Lion, People, Cats, Think, You

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