American – Poet April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. – Maya Angelou
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.Maya Angelou
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Maya Angelou
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.Maya Angelou
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. Maya Angelou
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Maya Angelou
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.Maya Angelou
All great achievements require time. Maya Angelou
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. Maya Angelou
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.Maya Angelou
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.Maya Angelou
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. – Maya Angelou
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. Maya Angelou
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou
I believe that every person is born with talent.Maya Angelou
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou
I got my own back. Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.Maya Angelou
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. Maya Angelou