Top 500 Maya Angelou Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Life sometimes gives you a second chance.”

— Maya Angelou

152. “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”

— Maya Angelou

153. “I sustain myself with the love of family.”

— Maya Angelou

154. “Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.”

— Maya Angelou

155. “I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.”

— Maya Angelou

156. “God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us – in the dreariest and most dreaded moments – can see a possibility of hope.”

— Maya Angelou

157. “Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.”

— Maya Angelou

158. “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

159. “We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate – thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.”

— Maya Angelou

160. “I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.”

— Maya Angelou

161. “The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.”

— Maya Angelou

162. “If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn’t it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?”

— Maya Angelou

163. “Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.”

— Maya Angelou

164. “The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.”

— Maya Angelou

165. “Don’t bring negative to my door.”

— Maya Angelou

166. “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”

— Maya Angelou

167. “A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.”

— Maya Angelou

168. “I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.”

— Maya Angelou

169. “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.”

— Maya Angelou

170. “Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.”

— Maya Angelou

171. “Poetry is music written for the human voice.”

— Maya Angelou

172. “I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”

— Maya Angelou

173. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”

— Maya Angelou

174. “Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.”

— Maya Angelou

175. “I’m a feminist. I’ve been a female for a long time now. It’d be stupid not to be on my own side.”

— Maya Angelou

176. “My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.”

— Maya Angelou

177. “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”

— Maya Angelou

178. “I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.”

— Maya Angelou

179. “Still, when it looked like the sun wasn’t going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.”

— Maya Angelou

180. “Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, ‘I have fallen, but I will get up.’”

— Maya Angelou

181. “Love liberates. Love – not sentimentality, not mush – but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, “Don’t do that, baby.” And the person will know you’re not preaching but teaching.”

— Maya Angelou

182. “No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.”

— Maya Angelou

183. “I know why the caged bird sings.”

— Maya Angelou

184. “When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.”

— Maya Angelou

185. “If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up – lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”

— Maya Angelou

186. “You build your ‘COURAGE MUSCLE’ daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right...”

— Maya Angelou

187. “Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.”

— Maya Angelou

188. “Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.”

— Maya Angelou

189. “Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.”

— Maya Angelou

190. “Hope is born again in the faces of children.”

— Maya Angelou

191. “My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me – to a lot of people.”

— Maya Angelou

192. “She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.”

— Maya Angelou

193. “The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.”

— Maya Angelou

194. “Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.”

— Maya Angelou

195. “I believe that every person is born with talent.”

— Maya Angelou

196. “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.”

— Maya Angelou

197. “Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.”

— Maya Angelou

198. “Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.”

— Maya Angelou

199. “I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.”

— Maya Angelou

200. “Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.”

— Maya Angelou