Maya Angelou Quotations:

Famous Words of Inspiration

Maya Angelou quotations as words of hope and inspiration to transform our lives.

American Authors of the 20th Century - Maya Angelou

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

We need to haunt the halls of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

This is my life. It is my one time to be me. I want to experience every good thing.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

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

All God's children need traveling shoes.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

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.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.

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