Top 500 Maya Angelou Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.”

— Maya Angelou

252. “The most important thing is to DARE.”

— Maya Angelou

253. “If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.”

— Maya Angelou

254. “Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.”

— Maya Angelou

255. “Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.”

— Maya Angelou

256. “As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.”

— Maya Angelou

257. “Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

259. “I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.”

— Maya Angelou

260. “There is no place where God is not.”

— Maya Angelou

261. “I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.”

— Maya Angelou

262. “Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.”

— Maya Angelou

263. “Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.”

— Maya Angelou

264. “All God’s children need traveling shoes.”

— Maya Angelou

265. “I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.”

— Maya Angelou

266. “We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.”

— Maya Angelou

267. “Look what you’ve already come through! Don’t deny it. Say I’m stronger than I thought I was.”

— Maya Angelou

268. “I don’t trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”

— Maya Angelou

269. “It’s true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.”

— Maya Angelou

270. “Poetry gave me back my voice.”

— Maya Angelou

271. “If you’re for the right thing, you do it without thinking.”

— Maya Angelou

272. “Faith is the evidence of the unseen.”

— Maya Angelou

273. “You can never be great at anything unless you love it.”

— Maya Angelou

274. “I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world’s variety and uniqueness.”

— Maya Angelou

275. “I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.”

— Maya Angelou

276. “If I’m here, I’ll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.”

— Maya Angelou

277. “Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.”

— Maya Angelou

278. “And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?””

— Maya Angelou

279. “I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I’m never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.”

— Maya Angelou

280. “Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!”

— Maya Angelou

281. “Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?”

— Maya Angelou

282. “Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you.”

— Maya Angelou

283. “It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.”

— Maya Angelou

284. “Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.”

— Maya Angelou

285. “The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.”

— Maya Angelou

286. “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”

— Maya Angelou

287. “Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.”

— Maya Angelou

288. “I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.”

— Maya Angelou

289. “It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.”

— Maya Angelou

290. “Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.”

— Maya Angelou

291. “I’m a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.”

— Maya Angelou

292. “At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.”

— Maya Angelou

293. “The honorary duty of a human being is to love.”

— Maya Angelou

294. “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’”

— Maya Angelou

295. “I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.”

— Maya Angelou

296. “Life loves the liver of it.”

— Maya Angelou

297. “You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.”

— Maya Angelou

298. “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

— Maya Angelou

299. “All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.”

— Maya Angelou

300. “I try to see every day as a celebration.”

— Maya Angelou