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There are 57 quotes for the author Maya Angelou

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

[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.
Subject: Life

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

All great achievements require time.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

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.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

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

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift.

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