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“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263,
Misattributed
Variant: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

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

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

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”

Nearly identical quote attributed to a 1995 TV show, Touched by an Angel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0732136/quotes: Tess: No, hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it's never solved one yet. <br class="br">Misattributed

“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”

“You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.”

Quoting her mother's statement after her son's birth, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”

“Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”

in Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), p. 68

“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”

Variant: Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

“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.”

“I am a Woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
that's me.”

“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.”

“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

“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 book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."”

The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997 - Full text online at weber.edu http://departments.weber.edu/chfam/familiesalive/angelouspeech.html3 <br class="br">Context: I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”

“I have need of a friend.

There is one and only one
who will give the air
from his failing lungs
for my body's mend.

And that one is my love.”

Maya Angelou book I Shall Not Be Moved

"Many and More"
I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)

“To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.”

“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.”