Top 100 Best Maya Angelou Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

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#3. Laugh as much as you can.

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#4. 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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#5. Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

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#6. I was seventeen, very old, embarrassingly young,

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#7. Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

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

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#9. The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

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#10. This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.

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#11. When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

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#12. Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

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#13. All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

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#14. The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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#15. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

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#16. Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

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#17. Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

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#18. They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.

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#19. Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

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#20. I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

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#21. Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

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#22. If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

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#23. Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

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#24. I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

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#25. There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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#26. The most important thing is to DARE.

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#27. The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

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#28. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

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#29. I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

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#30. You want me to do something ... tell me I can't do it.

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#31. Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.

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#32. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency

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#33. Sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself. When

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#34. People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

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#35. To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

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#36. A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

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#37. I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

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#38. 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.

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#39. Cotton rows crisscross the world
And dead-tired nights of yearning
Thunderbolts on leather strops
And all my body burning
Sugar cane reach up to God
And every baby crying
Shame a blanket of my night
And all my days are dying

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#40. I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

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#41. When you learn, teach,

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#42. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.

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#43. Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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#44. 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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#45. Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'

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#46. It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.

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#47. I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

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#48. I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

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#49. 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.

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#50. Then go to my room where solitude gaped whale-jawed wide to swallow me entire.

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#51. Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

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#52. we drove up to the three-shaded house,

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#53. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

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

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#55. What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. 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.

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#56. The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

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#57. In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

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#58. The weight of appreciation and the threat, which was never spoken, of a return to Momma were burdens that clogged my childish wits into impassivity.

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#59. Everything costs and costs the earth.

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#60. Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you.

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#61. When I try to describe myself to God I say, "Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?" And I almost always get God's attention.

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#62. Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

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#63. I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

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#64. My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge.

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#65. Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.

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#66. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

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#67. The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.

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#68. I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

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#69. America was aptly described by George Bernard Shaw, who said that it was 'the only country which had gone from barbarism to decadence without once passing through civilization.' Guy

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#70. In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?

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#71. I have found that the platonic affection
in friendships and familial
love for children can be relied upon
with certainty to lift the bruised soul
and repair the wounded spirit

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#72. We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

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#73. She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

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#74. I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

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#75. I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

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#76. Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!

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#77. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

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#78. You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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#79. I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

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#80. The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

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#81. He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

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#82. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

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#83. Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

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#84. I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

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#85. I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

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#86. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

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#87. I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

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#88. We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.

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#89. I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

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#90. But still, like air, I'll rise

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#91. Exchange love for hate ... Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

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#92. I hope you always find a reason to smile

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#93. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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#94. Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.

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#95. Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

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#96. My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.

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#97. I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

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#98. we were right-handed into a dully furnished living room. L.D.

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#99. 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. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.

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#100. You find the path by walking it.

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