Quotes from Maya Angelou

People will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

If a little learning is dangerous, a little fame can be devastating.

My eyes absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

In a Time In a time of secret wooing Today prepares tomorrow's ruin Left knows not what right is doing My heart is torn asunder. In a time of furtive sighs Sweet hellos and sad goodbyes Half-truths told and entire lies My conscience echoes thunder. In a time when kingdoms come Joy is brief as summer's fun Happiness, its race has run Then pain stalks in to plunder.

A lack of courage allows us to remain blinded to our own history and deaf to the cries of our past.

If I am comfortable inside my skin, I have the ability to make other people comfortable inside their skins.

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness." —

I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." —Maya Angelou

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

They grow the fruit, But eat the rind

I can change by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.