Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”

“If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.”

“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.”

“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”

“I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”

“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.”

“Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.”

“If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.”