Maya Angelou's quote

Maya Angelou ( /ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/; born Marguerite Ann Johnson; April 4, 1928) is an American author and poet. She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years. She has received dozens of awards and over thirty honorary doctoral degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of seventeen, and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
When you know better you do better.
Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Letter to My Daughter
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Letter to My Daughter
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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!
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face. Letter to My Daughter
Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
We need much less than we think we need.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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.
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Success is loving life and daring to live it.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
All great achievements require time.
Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.
First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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 some things back.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
Live as though life was created for you.
The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike. Letter to My Daughter
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.