Quote

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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
Ideas
Inspire
Flow
Creativity
Positive
Creative
Use
Creativeness
Inspirational
Memorable
Art
Innovation

More quotes by Maya Angelou

Image
Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?
Maya Angelou
Image
Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
Maya Angelou
Image
The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.
Maya Angelou
Image
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
Image
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
Maya Angelou
Image
Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
Maya Angelou
Image
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
Maya Angelou
Image
All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.
Maya Angelou
Image
I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.
Maya Angelou
Image
I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'
Maya Angelou
Image
I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.
Maya Angelou
Image
To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.
Maya Angelou
Image
Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.
Maya Angelou
Image
We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.
Maya Angelou
Image
In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
Maya Angelou
Image
There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so.
Maya Angelou
Image
Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.
Maya Angelou
Image
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
Maya Angelou
Image
Thank you, always say thank you it's the greatest gift you can give someone because thank you is what you say to God.
Maya Angelou
Image
When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?
Maya Angelou