Maya Angelou Quotes
+7If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.
- Maya Angelou
+7You can write me down in history with hateful, twisted lies, you can tread me in this very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
- Maya Angelou
+5If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
- Maya Angelou
+5We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
- Maya Angelou
+3There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
- Maya Angelou
+3A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- Maya Angelou
+2Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
- Maya Angelou
+2I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.”
- Maya Angelou
+1One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
+1Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles,leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
- Maya Angelou
+1If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
- Maya Angelou
+1If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
- Maya Angelou
+1It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
- Maya Angelou
+1Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
- Maya Angelou
+1The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
- Maya Angelou
+1The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
+1I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
- Maya Angelou
+1History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou
+1You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.
- Maya Angelou
+1We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
- Maya Angelou
+1I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
- Maya Angelou
+1The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.
- Maya Angelou
0Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
- Maya Angelou
0I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
- Maya Angelou
0Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
0This is my life. It is my one time to be me. I want to experience every good thing.
- Maya Angelou
0Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. Let’s go.”
- Maya Angelou
