Way Quotes by Maya Angelou

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a…

— Maya Angelou

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

— Maya Angelou

When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose…

— Maya Angelou

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

— Maya Angelou

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

— Maya Angelou

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than…

— Maya Angelou

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day,…

— Maya Angelou

We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores.…

— Maya Angelou

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way…

— Maya Angelou

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the…

— Maya Angelou

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,…

— Maya Angelou

My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the…

— Maya Angelou

As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves.…

— Maya Angelou

“Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know,…

— Maya Angelou

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,…

— Maya Angelou

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak…

— Maya Angelou

Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information…

— Maya Angelou

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to…

— Maya Angelou

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the…

— Maya Angelou

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make…

— Maya Angelou

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary…

— Maya Angelou

A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar,…

— Maya Angelou

"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not…

— Maya Angelou

Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true…

— Maya Angelou

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced…

— Maya Angelou

When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't…

— Maya Angelou

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that…

— Maya Angelou

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And…

— Maya Angelou

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to…

— Maya Angelou

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been…

— Maya Angelou

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say.…

— Maya Angelou

remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right…

— Maya Angelou

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,…

— Maya Angelou

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be…

— Maya Angelou

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try…

— Maya Angelou

I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I…

— Maya Angelou

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important…

— Maya Angelou

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want…

— Maya Angelou

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick…

— Maya Angelou

Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you…

— Maya Angelou