Maya Angelou: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Let nothing dim the light that 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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”