Poet Quotes

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"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it."

-- Maya Angelou

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it."

-- Maya Angelou

"We need much less than we think we need."

-- Maya Angelou

"We need much less than we think we need."

-- Maya Angelou

"Nothing will work unless you do."

-- Maya Angelou

"Nothing will work unless you do."

-- Maya Angelou

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

-- Maya Angelou

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

-- Maya Angelou

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

-- Maya Angelou

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

-- Maya Angelou

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

-- Maya Angelou

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

-- Maya Angelou

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

-- Maya Angelou

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

-- 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."

-- Maya Angelou

"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet."

-- Maya Angelou

"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet."

-- Maya Angelou

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

-- Maya Angelou

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

-- Maya Angelou

"I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."

-- Maya Angelou

"I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'."

-- Maya Angelou

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

-- Maya Angelou

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

-- Maya Angelou

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

-- Maya Angelou

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

-- Maya Angelou

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."

-- Maya Angelou

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

-- Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

-- Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

-- Maya Angelou

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

-- Maya Angelou

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

-- Maya Angelou

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

-- Maya Angelou

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

-- Maya Angelou

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

-- Maya Angelou

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

-- Maya Angelou

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

-- Maya Angelou

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

-- Maya Angelou

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

-- Maya Angelou

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

-- Maya Angelou

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

-- Maya Angelou

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

-- Maya Angelou

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

-- Maya Angelou

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

-- Maya Angelou