Maya Angelou Quotes

1K quotes · Poet, Memoirist

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Maya Angelou Quotes

All Courageous Grateful Creative Love Hopeful 1K quotes · page 29 of 50

Maya Angelou

Poet, Memoirist

Happy

“I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.”

Dog Phones Ice

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Memoirist

Courageous

“Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.”

Used Iron Window

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Angry

“Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.”

Fire Clean

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Happy

“Success is loving life and daring to live it.”

Life Success

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Happy

“Live life as if it were created just for you.”

Ifs Live Life

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Courageous

“I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".”

People Responsibility Helping

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Hopeful

“In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'”

Trying Pie Why Not

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Hopeful

“I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.”

Dream Girl Kings

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Angry

“Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.”

Dangerous Victim Whining

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Love

“It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.”

Needs Hands Hair

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Creative

“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”

Mother Brother Daughter

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Determined

“Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”

Thinking Might Effort

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