--- title: "6 Good morning Quotes By Maya Angelou" description: "6 Good morning quotes by Maya Angelou. Plus more from Maya Angelou and more Good morning sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4c/maya-angelou-104_brother_here-on-the-pulse-of-this-new-day-you-ma_576618.png" --- > [Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/here-on-the-pulse-of-this-new-day-you-may-have-the-grace-to-look-up/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4c/maya-angelou-104_brother_here-on-the-pulse-of-this-new-day-you-ma_576618.png) > [Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/out-of-the-huts-of-history-s-shame-i-rise-up-from-a-past-that-s/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe4/maya-angelou-104_ancestor_out-of-the-huts-of-history-s-shame-i-ris_653815.jpg) > [“A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/a-rock-a-river-a-tree-hosts-to-species-long-since-departed-mark-the/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/570/maya-angelou-104_fine-day_a-rock-a-river-a-tree-hosts-to-species-l_677484.jpg) > [You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/you-rose-into-my-life-like-a-promised-sunrise-brightening-my-days/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/568/maya-angelou-104_belong_you-rose-into-my-life-like-a-promised-su_1153260.png) > [If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/if-you-have-only-one-smile-in-you-give-it-to-the-people-you-love-don/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c90/maya-angelou-104_good-morning_if-you-have-only-one-smile-in-you-give-i_2164221.png) > [Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/leaving-behind-nights-of-terror-and-fear-i-rise-into-a-daybreak-that/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/701/maya-angelou-104_behinds_leaving-behind-nights-of-terror-and-fear_2841821.png) ## Other authors on Good morning ## More by Maya Angelou > [Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/courage-the-most-important-of-all-the-virtues-because-without-courage/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/if-we-accept-being-talked-to-any-kind-of-a-way-then-we-are-telling/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/you-should-be-angry-you-must-not-be-bitter-bitterness-is-like-cancer/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/you-are-very-kind-and-very-intelligent-and-those-elements-are-not/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-agreed-a-long-time-ago-i-would-not-live-at-any-cost-if-i-am-moved/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/you-want-me-to-do-something-tell-me-i-can-t-do-it/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/intelligence-is-a-separate-gift-for-the-benefit-of-students-so-that/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/life-is-going-to-give-you-just-what-you-put-in-it-put-your-whole/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/you-may-write-me-down-in-history-with-your-bitter-twisted-lies-you/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/the-more-you-know-of-your-history-the-more-liberated-you-are/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/life-offers-us-tickets-to-places-which-we-have-not-knowingly-asked-for/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/every-person-needs-to-take-one-day-away-a-day-in-which-one/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-m-working-at-trying-to-be-a-christian-and-that-s-serious-business/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/nathaniel-hawthorne-once-said-that-easy-reading-is-damn-hard-writing/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/sunday-if-i-m-lucky-i-ll-go-to-church-or-listen-to-some-good/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-morning/maya-angelou/#itemlist", "name": "6 Good morning Quotes By Maya Angelou", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maya Angelou" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/here-on-the-pulse-of-this-new-day-you-may-have-the-grace-to-look-up/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4c/maya-angelou-104_brother_here-on-the-pulse-of-this-new-day-you-ma_576618.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4c/maya-angelou-104_brother_here-on-the-pulse-of-this-new-day-you-ma_576618.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4c/maya-angelou-104_brother_here-on-the-pulse-of-this-new-day-you-ma_576618.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes…” — Maya Angelou", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. 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You, who gave me my first name, You Pawnee, Apache and Seneca, You Cherokee Nation, who rested with me, Then forced on bloody feet, Left me to the employment of other seekers-- Desperate for gain, starving for gold. You, the Turk, the Swede, the German, the Scot... You the Ashanti, the Yoruba, the Kru, Bought, sold, stolen, arriving on a nightmare Praying for a dream. Here, root yourselves beside me. I am the tree planted by the river, Which will not be moved. I, the rock, I the river, I the tree I am yours--your passages have been paid. Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need For this bright morning dawning for you. History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage, Need not be lived again. Lift up your eyes upon The day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Women, children, men, Take it into the palms of your hands. Mold it into the shape of your most Private need. Sculpt it into The image of your most public self. Lift up your hearts. 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