58 Quotes By 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.
Maya Angelou on alone

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

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

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

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

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

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 on courage

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 on courage

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

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 on courage

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 on education

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

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 on god

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 on good

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

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 on great

All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou on great

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 on great

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

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 on home