Quote

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

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
Motivational
Belief
Faith
Unknowable
Inspirational
Venture
Power
Larger
Even
Unknown
Allows
Positive

More quotes by Maya Angelou

Image
As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Image
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.
Maya Angelou
Image
We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.
Maya Angelou
Image
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou
Image
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage to trust that courage and build bridges with it to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.
Maya Angelou
Image
Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.
Maya Angelou
Image
I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.
Maya Angelou
Image
I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.
Maya Angelou
Image
I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.
Maya Angelou
Image
All great acheivements require time.
Maya Angelou
Image
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou
Image
At our best, we're all teachers
Maya Angelou
Image
My mother raised me, and then freed me.
Maya Angelou
Image
I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.
Maya Angelou
Image
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
Image
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Maya Angelou
Image
Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Maya Angelou
Image
It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
Maya Angelou
Image
In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.
Maya Angelou
Image
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
Maya Angelou