Learning Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously. — Dennis Quaid

If you trust someone, trust till the end; whatever the results may be, In the end you will have a very good friend or a very good lesson — Unknown

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth. — Maya Angelou

Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us.
We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous. — Maya Angelou

...yes is all you ever need to say to begin a journey. — Bill Richardson

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation. — Maya Angelou

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. — Maya Angelou

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so. — Maya Angelou

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it. — Roscoe Mitchell

If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning. — Maya Angelou

A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning. He — Maya Angelou

I can't wait to read it, because I want to know how someone who was abused and raped as a child could grow up to write poems about being phenomenal when something so disgusting and humiliating has happened to her. (Kendra's words upon learning about Maya Angelou and her books I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Phenomenal Woman) — Kamichi Jackson

Segregation shaped me; education liberated me. — Maya Angelou

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive. — Tony DiTerlizzi

You're not leaving me." Her voice steadied as she took the bag from him and stepped back. "I'm leaving you. — Kitty French

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. — Paul Stanley