Maya Angelou

Quotes from Maya Angelou.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
- Maya Angelou

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
- Maya Angelou

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
- Maya Angelou

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.
- Maya Angelou

Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
- Maya Angelou

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
- Maya Angelou

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
- Maya Angelou

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- Maya Angelou

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.
- Maya Angelou