Hope Quotes by Maya Angelou

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

— Maya Angelou

Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

— Maya Angelou

Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

— Maya Angelou

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

— Maya Angelou

Hope is born again in the faces of children.

— Maya Angelou

They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

— Maya Angelou

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

— Maya Angelou

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see…

— Maya Angelou

“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”

— Maya Angelou

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat…

— Maya Angelou

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

— Maya Angelou

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I…

— Maya Angelou

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

— Maya Angelou

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment…

— Maya Angelou

“Hope is born again in the faces of children. It rides on the shoulders of our aged as they walk into their…

— Maya Angelou

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going…

— Maya Angelou

Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the…

— Maya Angelou

The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you…

— Maya Angelou

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space…

— Maya Angelou

The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to…

— Maya Angelou

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going…

— Maya Angelou

My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and…

— Maya Angelou

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own…

— Maya Angelou

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and…

— Maya Angelou

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

— Maya Angelou

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody…

— Maya Angelou

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other…

— Maya Angelou

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the…

— Maya Angelou

Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's…

— Maya Angelou

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no…

— Maya Angelou

If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded…

— Maya Angelou