Maya Angelou Quotes

"If someone tells you who they are, believe them."
-Maya Angelou

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
-Maya Angelou

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."
-Maya Angelou in Ignorance quotes.

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
-Maya Angelou

"Nothing will work unless you do."
-Maya Angelou in Actions quotes.

"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
-Maya Angelou

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."
-Maya Angelou

"You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated."
-Maya Angelou

"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

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
-Maya Angelou

"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."
-Maya Angelou

"Determine to live life with flair and laughter."
-Maya Angelou

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you."
-Maya Angelou in Success quotes.

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."
-Maya Angelou

"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."
-Maya Angelou

"Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."
-Maya Angelou

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
-Maya Angelou

"I know why the caged bird sings."
-Maya Angelou in Birds quotes.

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
-Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. "
-Maya Angelou

"The needs of society determine its ethics."
-Maya Angelou

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
-Maya Angelou

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
-Maya Angelou

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
-Maya Angelou

"I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost."
-Maya Angelou

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
-Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
-Maya Angelou