Quote

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Maya Angelou

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
Author
Autobiographer
Comedian
Dancer
Essayist
Film Director
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
Humans
Long
Really
Time
Taught
History
Human

More quotes by Maya Angelou

Image
Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.
Maya Angelou
Image
When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
Maya Angelou
Image
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou
Image
Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.
Maya Angelou
Image
On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
Maya Angelou
Image
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
Maya Angelou
Image
My mother raised me, and then freed me.
Maya Angelou
Image
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
Maya Angelou
Image
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
Maya Angelou
Image
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
Image
I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.
Maya Angelou
Image
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.
Maya Angelou
Image
Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
Maya Angelou
Image
Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.
Maya Angelou
Image
Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
Maya Angelou
Image
Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.
Maya Angelou
Image
Don't face the day until you've faced God.
Maya Angelou
Image
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou
Image
I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.
Maya Angelou
Image
I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
Maya Angelou