Our 10 Favorite Maya Angelou Quotes

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Maya Angelou, a poet and civil rights activist, passed away at the age of 86 on Wednesday.

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Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis on April 4, 1928. One of her most famous moments is reading at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1993. This was the first time that an African American woman had been allowed to read at a presidential inauguration and she was the first poet to read at one in over 30 years, reports The Los Angeles Times.

Check out the following gallery to see InvestorPlace’s 10 favorite Maya Angelou quotes, as collected from Brainy Quote.

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Maya Angelou Quotes

  • “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.”
  • “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
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Maya Angelou Quotes

  • “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”
  • “You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.'”

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Maya Angelou Quotes

  • “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”
  • “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”
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Maya Angelou Quotes

  • “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.”
  • “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
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Maya Angelou Quotes

  • “I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.”
  • “What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.”

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