maya angelou Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maya Angelou | 4 April 1928 | 28 May 2014 | American | Bailey Johnson | Vivian Baxter Johnson | Journalist, Pimp, Poet, Dancer, Essayist, Civil rights activist, Female Prostitute, Film producer, Playwright, Screenwriter, Author, Professor, Television producer, Film director, Actor | A poet and award-winning author known for her acclaimed memoir 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' and her numerous poetry and essay collections. |
A list of popular maya angelou quotes are given below.
"If you do not like something, change it. If you can not change it change your attitude. Do not complain." - Maya Angelou
"You only are free when you realize you belong no place ? you belong every place ? no place at all." - Maya Angelou
"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women." - Maya Angelou
"I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss." - Maya Angelou
"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." - Maya Angelou
"My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still." - Maya Angelou
"The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness." - Maya Angelou
"In the flush of loves 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." - Maya Angelou
"It is by observation that in the future they will not remember what you said, they will not remember what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." - Maya Angelou
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can not practice any other virtue consistently." - Maya Angelou
"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Do not be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers." - Maya Angelou
"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." - Maya Angelou
"A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself." - Maya Angelou
"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for." - Maya Angelou
"I have learned that you should not go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands, you need to be able to throw some things back." - Maya Angelou