Maya Angelou Quotes

Welcome all to my Maya Angelou quotes. This woman has achieved humungous success in everything she has set out to achieve. She is an American poet, playwright, memoirist, actress, author, producer and she has excelled in all for decades. She is known for her wise words and poetry please enjoy these quotes from a phenomenal lady.

• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
• All great achievements require time
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• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
• 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.
• If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
• 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.
• I believe that every person is born with talent.
• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
• 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.
• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
• 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.
• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
• 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.
• 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.
• If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
• 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.
• Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ''I'm with you kid. Let's go.
• My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
• 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.

I love this woman she is truly great. I hope you enjoyed these Maya Angelou quotes. Full of wisdom and truth. To your success!

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