Maya Angelou Quotes
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.
I'm young as morningand fresh as dew.Everybody loves meand so do you.
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.
Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.Lost, injured, hurt by chance.I screamed to the heavens....loudly screamed....Trying to change our nightmares into dreams...
You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.
In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.
I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.
Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.
The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes...
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present... gratefully.
Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying
It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).
They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you.
Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.
Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
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.
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
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.
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.