Quotes by
Maya Angelou |
1928-2014 , American poet
African-American writer, actress, poet, and figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. Her best-known works are her six autobiographies (!).The first of her many marriages was to a Greek sailor, hence the Greek name she chose to keep.
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Quotations
| • | Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. 4 |
| • | People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. 4 |
| • | If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? 3 |
| • | Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. 3 |
| • | 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.” 3 |
| • | A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. 2 |
| • | When you learn, teach, when you get, give. 2 |
| • | Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! 2 |
| • | Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. 2 |
| • | There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. 2 |
| • | You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. 2 |
| • | All great achievements require time. 1 |
| • | Nothing will work unless you do. 1 |
| • | 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. 1 |
| • | You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. 1 |
| • | Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. 1 |
| • | All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. 1 |
