Maya Angelou Quotes

1K quotes · Poet, Memoirist

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Maya Angelou Quotes

All Courageous Grateful Creative Love Hopeful 1K quotes · page 25 of 50

Maya Angelou

Poet, Memoirist

Confident

“You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.”

Want Humility Modesty

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Memoirist

Love

“Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.”

Age Lovers Loving Someone

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Wise

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”

Mother Teacher

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Love

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”

Waiting Friendship

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Confident

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”

Thinking Real Overcoming

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Creative

“Poetry is music written for the human voice.”

Voice Humans

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Love

“If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.”

Children Mother

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Angry

“Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."”

Inspirational Motivational Nature

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Love

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.”

Inspirational Love Is Bridges

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Courageous

“The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.”

Life Passion Success

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Love

“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

Inspirational Self Mother

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Wise

“The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.”

Mean Important Negative

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