Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
">
Quotes.wiki
Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
Maya Angelou  Quotes
Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you’ve heard me crying and admit you’ve seen my tears.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (1 votes, 5.00 )Loading...
EqualityPoetry
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I am convinced that most people do not grow up…We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AdulthoodGrowing-UpLife
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’…. And it might be just the most boring and awful...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Writing
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ChristianityInspirational
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CompassionEducationKnowledge
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Cannot
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AlmostKnowingMeans
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
LiberatedWays
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Friends
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I believe that every person is born with talent.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BornTalent
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
TeachesWriter
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished,...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
IdeasLess
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AwarenessLive-In-The-Moment
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I sustain myself with the love of family.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
FamilyInspirational
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
EducationInspirationalLearning
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
GhanaHumanityThe-World
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Youth
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Greatest
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Help
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
EverybodyInsist
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CoverIdeas
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
GirlOtherwisePlain
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I’ve read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ and ‘Look Homeward, Angel.’

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AgainRead
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BlackUseWord
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
1997Annie-Clark-Tanner-LectureInspirational
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
That’s what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you’ve got. I’ve told you many times, ‘Cant do is like Dont Care.’ Neither of them have a...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Inspirational
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DeathFearGood
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Creativity
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Home
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
GratefulHappens
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‘I write for money.’ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Black
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright’s pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Mind
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‘Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.’ And I...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
HairWrong
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AdmireLanguageUnderstand
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important....

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
HereRead
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeautifulReadWonderful
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
We need much less than we think we need.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Contentment
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
My life has been one great big joke,A dance that’s walked,A song that’s spoke,I laugh so hard I almost choke,When I think about myself.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Life
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Writing
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
LonelinessMusicRefuge
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.Lost, injured, hurt by chance.I screamed to the heavens….loudly screamed….Trying to change our nightmares into dreams…

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Fate
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing,...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Rather
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin,...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Mother
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love...

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
EndureIgnoranceTalent
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I write some country music. There’s a song called ‘I Hope You Dance.’ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Somebody
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
PartyWonderful
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
You can only become great at that thing you’re willing to sacrifice for.

—Maya Angelou

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
GreatnessLifeSacrifice
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
  • Page 1 of 8
  • Next
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • About us

Copyright © 2017 - 2020 TR Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

Exercise your consumer rights by contacting us below Privacy Policy

[email protected]

Personalized advertisements

Turning this off will opt you out of personalized advertisements delivered from Google on this website.

CookiePro
Confirm
Popup Button popup close button