Maya Angelou Quotes

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.

Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

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.

The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

But still, like air, I'll rise

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Everything costs and costs the earth.

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

I keep on dying, Because I love to live

The most important thing is to DARE.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

No one has ever become poor from giving.

Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

Live as though life was created for you.

We are more alike than unalike.

A single fantasy can transform a million realities.

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

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

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.