“A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ♥ 21. “The only thing is, people have to develop courage.” ♥ 20. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.” ♥ 19. We need each other as we need the earth we share.” ♥ 18. It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet." ♥ 17. “We need joy as we need air. ![]() "We are only as blind as we want to be." ♥ 16. "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." ♥ 15. “I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.” ♥ 13. Then when you know better, do better." ♥ 12. "Do the best you can until you know better. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” ♥ 11. "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." ♥ 9. “I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.” ♥ 8. Passion alone will destroy its walls.” ♥ 7. Patience alone will not build the temple. “Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. "When people show you who they are, believe them." ♥ 6. “Determine to live life with flair and laughter.” ♥ 5. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.” ♥ 4. “I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. “Stand up straight and realize who you are. "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." ♥ 2. Don’t miss our further reading links below.1. Now that you’ve read these best Maya Angelou quotes, you might want to learn more. She’s not the only person we’ve quoted who loved libraries. “My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.” Photo by Tom Hermans on Unsplash ![]() That said, it’s not surprising to guess her advice for you: 8. There may be details that are different, but a human being is a human being.” - Huffington Post So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. “Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. In a Huffington Post interview, she said: 7. She also believed firmly in the freedom of information. the writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects-nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs-ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood and another way, into a bellicose mood. Maya Angelou understood the challenge of being a writer. “Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.” Later her own poetry would be referenced as Amanda Gorman, the sixth poet at a presidential inauguration referenced “Still I Rise.” That leads to another of Maya Angelou’s best quotes: She was the second poet to be invited to perform at a presidential inauguration. “Do the best you can until you know better. This is the famous Maya Angelou ‘do the best you can’ quote. ![]() In this next quote, you can almost hear her acknowledging those early poems. I would write some-of course it was terrible-but I’d always written something down.” Speaking of her childhood and writing, she said: 3. It is that precise, that established, that organized, that sort of development from the bottom to the top.” - Smithsonian Magazine interview Photo by Gaelle Marcel on Unsplash On Writing: The Best Maya Angelou Quotes Who made that rule? You ever see a person lay bricks? Because of the eye and the hands, of course he or she would like to see ballet. we cripple our children, we cripple each other with those designations that if you’re a brick mason you shouldn’t love the ballet. In an interview with the Smithsonian, when asked about her ability to easily navigate through her “diverse life and career,” she responded by looking at the next generation. ![]() If you can’t change it, change your attitude. During her long life she valued and wrote about her family and was generous in her encouragement to others as you’ll see in these following quotes. She spoke out against racism and was open about abuse far before #metoo. Maya Angelou was a poet, a writer, an activist, a teacher -and much more. Later, she would travel the US and the world, living in Africa for a season before returning to the US and discovering a love for teaching. As a young adult, Angelou moved to California to live with her mother. She grew up in the deep South, with only one traumatic trip back to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1928, her parents’ early separation sent Maya to live with her grandparents in Arkansas. Maya Angelou at the Clinton Presidential Inauguration in 1993īorn in St.
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