Maya Angelou Quotes - 9quotes.com

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Written by Maya Angelou
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Written by Maya Angelou
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Written by Maya Angelou
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Written by Maya Angelou
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Written by Maya Angelou
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Written by Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Written by Maya Angelou
Effective action is always unjust.
Written by Maya Angelou
Nothing will work unless you do.
Written by Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Written by Maya Angelou
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Written by Maya Angelou
All great achievements require time.
Written by Maya Angelou
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Written by Maya Angelou
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Written by Maya Angelou
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Written by 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.
Written by Maya Angelou
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Written by Maya Angelou
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Written by Maya Angelou
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Written by Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Written by Maya Angelou
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Written by Maya Angelou
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Written by Maya Angelou
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Written by 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.
Written by Maya Angelou
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Written by Maya Angelou
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Written by Maya Angelou
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Written by Maya Angelou
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Written by Maya Angelou
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Written by Maya Angelou
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Written by Maya Angelou

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