Maya Angelou Quotes

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"See, you don’t have to think about doing the right thing if you are for the right thing then you’ll do it without thinking."

"I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at."

"All great achievements require time."

"Achievement brings its own anticlimax."

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."

"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

"When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift"

"She's my sister friend and I pray for her and her children. Everybody, please give a good thought, a positive thought for Coretta."

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision."

"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of wat"

"You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise."

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time."

"i believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare"

"It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, ... I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest."

"women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible and live long lives"

"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."

"Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations."

"Mrs. Parks is for me probably what the Statute of Liberty was for immigrants. She stood for the future, and the better future."

"Someone was hurt before you; wronged before you; beaten before you; humiliated before you; raped before you; yet, someone SURVIVED"