Maya Angelou Quotes

Maya Angelou Quotes

An important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement, Maya Angelou is also an author, actress and playwright. Her autobiography, ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,’ gave her critical and international acclaim. In the late seventies, she became a friend and mentor to Oprah Winfrey.

Image: Photo of Maya Angelou, poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist

“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.”

“There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.”

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.”

– Maya Angelou (1928-2014 )

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