Maya Angelou Quotes About Life

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  • This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

  • The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

    Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016
  • While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

    Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.18, Bantam
  • Life loves the liver of it.

    1977 Interview in Black Scholar, Jan- Feb. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).
  • Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013
  • Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.797, Modern Library
  • All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

    Maya Angelou (1977). “I know why the caged bird sings”
  • Life loves the person who dares to live it.

    Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.77, Random House
  • Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

    Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”
  • Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 07, 2011
  • I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

  • I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

    Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”
  • Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 05, 2012
  • You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

  • When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

  • I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

    Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House
  • 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 (1994). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, Random House Incorporated
  • Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

  • If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library
  • 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 (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House
  • No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

  • We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

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

  • I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library
  • The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

  • We are only as blind as we want to be.

  • We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone- because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Not just how tall we are, or thin… but who we are internally… perhaps even spiritually. There’s something, which impels us to show our inner-souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

  • The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  • If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

    Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam
  • Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

    Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.18, Bantam
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    Maya Angelou

    • Born: April 4, 1928
    • Died: May 28, 2014
    • Occupation: Author