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Maya Angelou Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
— Maya Angelou, Soul Shattering Poetry
Tagged: Marriage, Love, Perfect Love, romance, Perfect Dating, Wedding Vows, Things To Text Her
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
— Maya Angelou, 101 Quotes and Sayings From Maya Angelou: Inspirational Quotes From Phenomenal Woman
Tagged: Love, Trust
“Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise”
— Maya Angelou, Still I Rise
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, black lives matter movement, blacklivesmatter, black lives, rise, Progress, racism, History
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.'”
— Maya Angelou, The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“I am a Woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
that’s me.”
— Maya Angelou, "Phenomenal Woman"
Tagged: Being a woman, feminism
“You may write me down in history 
with your bitter, twisted lies. 
You may trod me in the very dirt 
but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”
— Maya Angelou, Still I Rise
Tagged: feminism, strength, Self love, Poetry, Spilled Ink, Inspirational, Girl Power
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
— Maya Angelou, via Facebook
Tagged: Strong Women, Female Empowerment, feminism, Being a woman, Strong Woman
“The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.”
— Maya Angelou, First Love Quotes at BrainyQuote
Tagged: Maya Angelou, Love, First Love
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”
— Maya Angelou, Strong Women Quotes
Tagged: Maya Angelou, Women
“In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”
— Maya Angelou, Touched By An Angel
Tagged: Brutally Honest, Poetry, Love, Love's Light, Bravery, Free
“He held me so softly that I wished he wouldn’t ever let me go. I felt at home.”
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Tagged: Hug, Romantic, Home
“I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'it is here in my heart and mind and memories.'”
— Maya Angelou, When I Think of Death
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Death, Loss, heart, Mind, Memories
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
— Maya Angelou, 100 Inspiring Quotes About Moms for 100 Years of Mother's Day
Tagged: I Love You Mom, Motherhood, Love, Pure Love, Unconditional Love, Family Love
“In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.”
— Maya Angelou, Touched By An Angel Poem by Maya Angelou - Poem Hunter
Tagged: Maya Angelou, Beautiful, Nature, Love, Inspiring
“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
— Maya Angelou
Tagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice
“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
— Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry
Tagged: laugh, Laughter, Trust
“When someone shows you who they are the first time, believe them.”
— Maya Angelou, 15 Lessons You'll Learn From Almost Relationships
Tagged: Almost Relationships, Love, Lost Love, Forgotten
“ Nothing cam dim the light that shines from within.”
— Maya Angelou, 37 Inspirational Strong Women Quotes with Images
Tagged: Maya Angelou, Strong Women, Independent
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Tagged: Growth, Innocence
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