Dr Maya Angelou, born in 1928, is a poet and well known autobiographer. She is one of the strongest and most admired female voices across the world.
If you don’t
like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t
complain - Maya Angelou
A bird doesn’t
sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song - Maya Angelou
Nothing will
work unless you do - Maya Angelou
Courage: the
most important of all virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any
other virtue consistently - Maya Angelou
I have found
that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver - Maya Angelou
There is no
greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you - Maya Angelou
If you have
only one smile, give it to the people you love - Maya Angelou
I do not trust
people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There’s an
African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt - Maya Angelou
The first time
someone shows you who they are, believe them - Maya Angelou
My mission in
life is not merely to survive, but to thrive, and do so with passion,
compassion, some humor and some style - Maya
Angelou
Ask for what
you want and be prepared to get it - Maya
Angelou
There’s a
world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth - Maya Angelou
A woman’s
heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her -
Maya Angelou
We need much
less than we think we need - Maya
Angelou
We delight in
the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through
to achieve that beauty - Maya Angelou
I can be
changed by what happened to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it - Maya Angelou
Surviving is
important. Thriving is elegant - Maya
Angelou
I have learned
that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one - Maya Angelou
The desire to
reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise - Maya Angelou
You may shoot
me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your
hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise! - Maya Angelou
I believe that
the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to
dare - Maya Angelou
There is
nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to
believing nothing - Maya Angelou
At the end of
the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you
made them feel - Maya Angelou
Prejudice is a
burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present
inaccessible - Maya Angelou
There is a
very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it - Maya Angelou
We may
encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated - 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 - Maya Angelou
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