When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 33
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 5
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 4
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 4
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 4
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 4
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. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 3
Ive learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life.". Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 2
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 2
women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible and live long lives. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 2
life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 2
See, you dont have to think about doing the right thing if you are for the right thing then youll do it without thinking. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 2
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 2
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 2
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 2
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 1
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 1
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 1
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 1
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 1
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 0
love builds up the broken wall and straigtens the crooked path. love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides each of us is created of it and i suspect each of us was created for it. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 0
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. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 0