1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

When you know better you do better.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.