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 Quotes
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All of us know, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth, each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided. Maya Angelou
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Maya Angelou
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You have to start developing courage as you do any other muscle. You have to start with small things and build it up. Maya Angelou
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Maya Angelou
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It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. Maya Angelou
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Maya Angelou
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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
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. Maya Angelou
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. Maya Angelou
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Hate has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. Maya Angelou
Empowering Quotes by Maya Angelou
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I got my own back. Maya Angelou
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. Maya Angelou
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. Maya Angelou
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. Maya Angelou
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? Maya Angelou
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou Quotes
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When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest. Maya Angelou
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Maya Angelou
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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road. Maya Angelou
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If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
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When you know you are of worth — not asking it but knowing it — you walk into a room with a particular power. Maya Angelou
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Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. Maya Angelou
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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that, I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. Maya Angelou Quotes
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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, ‘Can I be of help?’. Maya Angelou
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise! Maya Angelou
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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. Maya Angelou
Famous Quotes by Maya Angelou
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All great achievements require time. Maya Angelou
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Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you… yet, someone survived… You can do anything you choose to do. Maya Angelou
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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. Maya Angelou
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When you get, give. When you learn, teach. Maya Angelou
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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.Maya Angelou
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The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world. Maya Angelou
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Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‘That’s life.’ Maya Angelou
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. Maya Angelou
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Maya Angelou Quotes
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. Maya Angelou
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Maya Angelou
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou
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I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. Maya Angelou
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I do my best because I’m counting on you counting on me. Maya Angelou
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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
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou
Biographical Sketch
Maya Angelou, original name Marguerite Annie Johnson, (born April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—May 28, 2014) American award-winning poet, memoirist, civil rights activist, and Grammy-winning composer, director, and actress.
She is best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman. It has been translated into numerous languages and has sold over a million copies worldwide. Angelou eventually published six more autobiographies, culminating in 2013’s Mom & Me & Mom.
With more than 30 bestselling titles, Maya Angelou has written 36 books.
A Song Flung up to Heaven, published in 2002, is the sixth installment of her autobiographical series, and provides a personal account of Angelou’s role as an influential leader of the civil rights movement between 1965 and 1968.
She wrote many poetry volumes, such as the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Just Give me a Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie (1971), as well as several essay collections. Angelou carried out a wide variety of activities on stage and screen as a writer, actor, director, and producer.
In 1972, she became the first African American woman to have her screenplay turned into a film with the production of Georgia, Georgia.