MAYA ANGELOU Quotes

"God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope." ~Maya Angelou (April 04, 1928)

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ~Maya Angelou

"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent." ~Maya Angelou

"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face." ~Maya Angelou

"A woman who is in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself." ~Maya Angelou

"All great achievements require time." ~Maya Angelou

"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." ~Maya Angelou

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. " ~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." ~Maya Angelou

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." ~Maya Angelou

"Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike." ~Maya Angelou

"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us." ~Maya Angelou

“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” ~Maya Angelou

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances." ~Maya Angelou

"Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it." ~Maya Angelou

"God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope." ~Maya Angelou (April 04, 1928 - )

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time." ~Maya Angelou

"Home is a refuge, not only from the world but a refuge from my worries, my terrible concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful, because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up." ~Maya Angelou

"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, it's never too late to do some good." ~Maya Angelou (The Angelou Johnson Family)

“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.” ~Maya Angelou

"I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory." ~Maya Angelou

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.” ~Maya Angelou

"I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt." ~Maya Angelou

"I’ve got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve,
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to Breathe."
~Maya Angelou

"I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back." ~Maya Angelou on Support

"I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." ~Maya Angelou

"I’ve learned that no matter what happens or how bad it seems today, life does go on and it will be." ~Maya Angelou

"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." ~Maya Angelou

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life." ~Maya Angelou

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision." ~Maya Angelou

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back." ~Maya Angelou

"I know I'm a good mother.
I care and I dare.
I care enough to let you go,
But I dare enough to follow you."
~Maya Angelou

"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 the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you." ~Maya Angelou (The Angelou Johnson Family)

"I may cry and I will die, but my spirit is the soul of every Spring, watch for me and you will see that I'm present in the songs that children sing." ~Maya Angelou from the poem, "Uncle Willie".

“I sustain myself with the love of my family.” ~Maya Angelou

"If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart." ~Maya Angelou (The Angelou Johnson Family)

“If you are always trying to be normal you may never know how amazing you can be.” ~Maya Angelou

"If you're not angry, you're either a stone, or you're too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking about it." ~Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." ~Maya Angelou

"If you get, give. If you learn, teach." ~Maya Angelou

“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present. Gratefully.” ~Maya Angelou

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” ~Maya Angelou

"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric." ~Maya Angelou

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~Maya Angelou.

"It still humbles me that this force that makes leaves and fleas and stars and rivers and you, loves me." ~Dr. Maya Angelou

"Imagine, I've had so many rainbows in my clouds. I've had a lot of clouds, but I've had so many rainbows." Be a rainbow in someone's cloud today." ~Maya Angelou, The Angelou Johnson Family.

"Let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good." ~Maya Angelou

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good." ~Maya Angelou

"Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive." ~Maya Angelou

"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art."  ~Maya Angelou

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."" ~Maya Angelou

"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God." ~Dr. Maya Angelou, 23 May 2014 (her last tweet, five days later, she passed away in her home. RIP).

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.” ~Maya Angelou

"Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it." ~Maya Angelou

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope." ~Maya Angelou

“Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.”
~Maya Angelou

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style." ~Maya Angelou

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart." ~Maya Angelou.

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~Maya Angelou

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within." ~Maya Angelou

"Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself." ~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 to understand each other, we may even become friends." ~Maya Angelou

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible." ~Maya Angelou 

“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.” ~Maya Angelou

"Shine on. Let nothing dim the light that shines from within." ~Maya Angelou

"Shoot me with your words. Cut me with your eyes. Kill me with your hatefulness. But still, like air, I’ll rise." ~Maya Angelou

"Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed." ~Dr. Maya Angelou

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ~Maya Angelou

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise." ~Maya Angelou

"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change." ~Maya Angelou

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination." ~Maya Angelou

“The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.” ~Maya Angelou

"There’s a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you, or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband. Nobody. Because that may be the place you go to when you meet with God. You have to have a place that you say, ‘Stop it! Back up!’ Because that place has to remain clean and clear." ~Dr. Maya Angelou (when asked by Oprah Winfrey what was the best piece of advice Dr. Angelou had ever given)

"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth." ~Maya Angelou

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." ~Maya Angelou

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." ~Maya Angelou

"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." ~Maya Angelou

"We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for." ~Maya Angelou

"We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognise that human beings are more alike than we are unalike." ~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

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." ~Maya Angelou

"We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share." 

~Maya Angelou 

“We need much less than we think we need.” ~Maya Angelou

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain." ~Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

"What you learn, teach. What you get, give." ~Maya Angelou 

"When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness." ~Maya Angelou

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ~Maya Angelou

"When you learn, teach; when you get, give." ~Maya Angelou

"Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." ~Maya Angelou

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody." ~Maya Angelou

“You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” ~Maya Angelou

"You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights." ~Maya Angelou 

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have." ~Maya Angelou

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." ~Maya Angelou

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." ~Maya Angelou

"You may write me down in history, with your bitter, twisted lies;
You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'LL RISE!"
~Maya Angelou

"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it." ~Maya Angelou

"You’ll save yourself a lot of heartache and time if you stop making excuses for other people’s bad behavior and instead see them for who they really are, the first time." ~Maya Angelou

QUOTES WITH PICTURES

Cook Park Orange NSW
26 December 2010

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~Maya Angelou

RIP: 29 May 2014

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QUOTES FROM FAMILY

"Looking around at our world it is time to rebuild new bridges and reach each other with a love that can no longer be ignored or abandoned." ~The Angelou Johnson Family

"Our Matriarch taught us that anger is a tool to seek justice, be active and leave no room for bitterness in our lives." ~ The Angelou Johnson Family

"When you open your eyes and expect beauty you will be surprised by how much beauty is in each one of us." ~The Angelou Johnson Family

"With kindness, humor, and compassion we encourage you to continue." ~ The Angelou Johnson Family

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