Top 500 Maya Angelou Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “I’m a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.”

— Maya Angelou

302. “One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

306. “One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

310. “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

311. “Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.”

— Maya Angelou

312. “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

313. “I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.”

— Maya Angelou

314. “It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.”

— Maya Angelou

315. “We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”

— Maya Angelou

316. “Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.”

— Maya Angelou

317. “I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.”

— Maya Angelou

318. “You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful – don’t underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.”

— Maya Angelou

319. “All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.”

— Maya Angelou

320. “The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.”

— Maya Angelou

321. “If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.”

— Maya Angelou

322. “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

— Maya Angelou

323. “Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.”

— Maya Angelou

324. “Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.”

— Maya Angelou

325. “Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.”

— Maya Angelou

326. “Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you’re gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.”

— Maya Angelou

327. “I think when we don’t know what to do it’s wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.”

— Maya Angelou

328. “All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.”

— Maya Angelou

329. “When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.”

— Maya Angelou

330. “I love the song ‘I Hope You Dance’ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.”

— Maya Angelou

331. “The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It’s fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don’t think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.”

— Maya Angelou

332. “Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.”

— Maya Angelou

333. “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”

— Maya Angelou

334. “Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.”

— Maya Angelou

335. “When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.”

— Maya Angelou

336. “Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.”

— Maya Angelou

337. “The future is plump with promise.”

— Maya Angelou

338. “Don’t let anybody raise you. You’ve been raised.”

— Maya Angelou

339. “Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.”

— Maya Angelou

340. “My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.”

— Maya Angelou

341. “The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.”

— Maya Angelou

342. “Tell the truth and not the facts.”

— Maya Angelou

343. “The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.”

— Maya Angelou

344. “There’s racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We’ve had bad news as a species for a long time. We’ve had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.”

— Maya Angelou

345. “My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.”

— Maya Angelou

346. “I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.”

— Maya Angelou

347. “Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‘That’s life.’”

— Maya Angelou

348. “You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for.”

— Maya Angelou

349. “Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.”

— Maya Angelou

350. “It’s amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That’s why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I’m amazed at it. I’m grateful for it.”

— Maya Angelou