Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil right activist. she was born on 4 April 1928 at St. Louis, Missouri in united-states. she published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. she was died on 28 may 2014 at Winston-salesman, North Carolina, in United -states. she was a great lady.
Top 60 Quotes Of Maya Angelou.
Maya Angelou
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.
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.
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I learned a long time ago, the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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peace my brother, peace my sister, peace my soul.
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I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because love liberates. Love liberates it doesn’t just hold, that’s ego, love liberates!
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
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You can never be great at anything unless you love it.
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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.
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I have a certain way of being in this world, and I shall not, I shall not be moved.
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I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.
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Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
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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.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
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Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.
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I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
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We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.
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Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. Take up the battle, take it up! It’s yours, this is your life, this is your world.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
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We are not our brother’s keeper; we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.
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The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
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The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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When you know you are of worth — not asking it but knowing it — you walk into a room with a particular power.
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The greatest gift we give to each other is the telling of the truth.
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If you are going down a road and don’t like what’s in front of you and look behind you and don’t like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
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What I really want to do is be a representative of my race, of the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be. I have a chance to teach and to love and to laugh.
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Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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You don’t have to think about doing the right thing. If you’re for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
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Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.
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If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.
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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.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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I’m grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.
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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.
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The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible.
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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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You can see in others what they don’t see in themselves and what the world doesn’t see in them. We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.
