An American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. – Maya Angelou
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. – Maya Angelou
A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. – Maya Angelou
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other. – Maya Angelou
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. – Maya Angelou
People will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things. – Maya Angelou
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise. – Maya Angelou
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. – Maya Angelou
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. – Maya Angelou
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. – Maya Angelou
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. – Maya Angelou
All great achievements require time. – Maya Angelou
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg. – Maya Angelou
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. – Maya Angelou
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. – Maya Angelou
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