Top 500 Maya Angelou Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “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

302. “Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.”

— Maya Angelou

303. “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

304. “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

305. “It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don’t think it will come back.”

— Maya Angelou

306. “My life has been one great big joke, A dance that’s walked, A song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.”

— Maya Angelou

307. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

309. “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

310. “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

311. “Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, ‘Just a minute. I’m worth everything, dear.’”

— Maya Angelou

312. “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

313. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

315. “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

316. “Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.”

— Maya Angelou

317. “Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

322. “The future is plump with promise.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

327. “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

328. “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

329. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

331. “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

332. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

335. “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

336. “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

337. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”

— Maya Angelou

338. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as heck we should never teach.”

— Maya Angelou

339. “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

340. “Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

343. “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

344. “My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.”

— Maya Angelou

345. “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

346. “It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.”

— Maya Angelou

347. “Modesty is a learned affectation. It’s no good. Humility is great, because humility says, ‘There was someone before me. I’m following in somebody’s footsteps.’”

— Maya Angelou

348. “There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.”

— Maya Angelou

349. “Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.”

— Maya Angelou

350. “If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.”

— Maya Angelou