Who Quotes by Maya Angelou

13 Who quotes by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou’s thirteen verses on Who echo her timeless lyrical voice, offering gentle yet powerful reminders about self‑discovery.

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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

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I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

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At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

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That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you…

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I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I…

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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were…

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I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves…

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I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came…

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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say,…

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What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And…

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At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only…

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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have…

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I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think…

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You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you…

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“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,…

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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and…

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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…

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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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…

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