Quotes from Maya Angelou
I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
- Maya Angelou
It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.
- Maya Angelou
Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.
- Maya Angelou
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
- Maya Angelou
Segregation shaped me education liberated me.
- Maya Angelou
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
- Maya Angelou
It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
- Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
- Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.
- Maya Angelou
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
- Maya Angelou
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
- Maya Angelou