Maya Angelou Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Love You Quotes

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Mind Quotes

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Writing Quotes , Names Quotes

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Book Quotes

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Mother Quotes , Queens Quotes

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Hero Quotes , Men Quotes

Life loves the person who dares to live it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , Love Life Quotes

Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Mean Quotes , Skins Quotes

A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Greatness Quotes , People Quotes

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Creativity Quotes , Thinking Quotes

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Funny Friend Quotes

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Music Quotes , Lovers Quotes

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Lesson Quotes , Sleep Quotes

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Thoughtful Quotes

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Creative Quotes

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Children Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Clouds Quotes

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.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Love Quotes , Life Quotes

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Positive Quotes , Moving On Quotes