Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
Maya Angelou quotes and sayings page 6 (deceased poet born on Apr 4, 1928). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 125 we have for her.
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”
“I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.”
“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”
“The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.”
“We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!”
“All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.”
“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
“Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.”
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