--- title: "11 Need Quotes By Maya Angelou" description: "11 Need quotes by Maya Angelou. Plus more from Maya Angelou and more Need sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f4/maya-angelou-104_contentment_we-need-much-less-than-we-think-we-need_2102149.png" --- > [We need much less than we think we need.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/we-need-much-less-than-we-think-we-need/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f4/maya-angelou-104_contentment_we-need-much-less-than-we-think-we-need_2102149.png) > [I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-have-need-of-a-friend-there-is-one-and-only-one-who-will-give-the/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cf/maya-angelou-104_air_i-have-need-of-a-friend-there-is-one-and_1541513.png) > [We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/we-need-joy-as-we-need-air-we-need-love-as-we-need-water-we-need-each/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a72/maya-angelou-104_air_we-need-joy-as-we-need-air-we-need-love_2302920.png) > [You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/you-don-t-need-another-person-place-or-thing-to-make-you-whole-god/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e8/maya-angelou-104_black-women_you-don-t-need-another-person-place-or-t_3003758.png) > [To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/to-know-and-not-to-do-is-in-fact-not-to-know-we-need-to-be-active/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a9/maya-angelou-104_active_to-know-and-not-to-do-is-in-fact-not-to_2545732.png) > [We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/we-need-to-not-be-in-denial-about-what-we-ve-done-what-we-ve-come/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10d/maya-angelou-104_denial_we-need-to-not-be-in-denial-about-what-w_1614377.png) > [It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to And someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/it-has-been-said-that-we-need-just-three-things-in-life-something-to/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a68/maya-angelou-104_happiness_it-has-been-said-that-we-need-just-three_825627.png) > [It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/it-is-sad-but-true-that-sometimes-we-need-the-tragedy-to-help-us-to/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/maya-angelou-104_different_it-is-sad-but-true-that-sometimes-we-nee_584250.png) > [What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/what-humility-does-for-one-is-it-reminds-us-that-there-are-people/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/945/maya-angelou-104_been_what-humility-does-for-one-is-it-reminds_2472695.jpg) > [Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/of-all-the-needs-there-are-none-imaginary-a-lonely-child-has-the-one/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/maya-angelou-104_black_of-all-the-needs-there-are-none-imaginar_1840352.png) > [In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/in-today-s-climate-in-our-country-which-is-sickened-with-the/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d91/maya-angelou-104_art_in-today-s-climate-in-our-country-which_3166051.png) ## Other authors on Need ## 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/need/maya-angelou/#itemlist", "name": "11 Need Quotes By Maya Angelou", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We need much less than we think we need.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maya Angelou" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/we-need-much-less-than-we-think-we-need/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f4/maya-angelou-104_contentment_we-need-much-less-than-we-think-we-need_2102149.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f4/maya-angelou-104_contentment_we-need-much-less-than-we-think-we-need_2102149.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f4/maya-angelou-104_contentment_we-need-much-less-than-we-think-we-need_2102149.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We need much less than we think we need.” — Maya Angelou", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have need of a friend. 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