Maya Angelou: Trending quotes (page 3)

“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”

“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.”

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”

“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.”

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

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible…We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”

“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.”

“You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”

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

“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”