Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelouwas an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, tells of her...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 April 1928
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.
I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.
Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.