Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. Maya Angelou More Quotes by Maya Angelou More Quotes From Maya Angelou Achievement brings its own anticlimax. Maya Angelou achievement I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. Maya Angelou grateful inspiring inspirational Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. Maya Angelou girl opportunity beauty Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger. Maya Angelou stronger mom hair I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them. Maya Angelou hip-hop numbers thinking We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! Maya Angelou light mirrors inspirational When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich. Maya Angelou musician dream ideas All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided. Maya Angelou policy company things-to-do I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them. Maya Angelou gun house want If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it. Maya Angelou allies cutting firsts Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem. Maya Angelou writing running thinking When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. Maya Angelou reading inspirational book I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. Maya Angelou life-changing failure inspirational I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me. Maya Angelou inspiring motivational inspirational I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. Maya Angelou parent missing inspirational We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us. Maya Angelou aliens humans Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. Maya Angelou poetry writing inspiring Be present in all things and thankful for all things. Maya Angelou thanksgiving inspirational life I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. Maya Angelou persistence inspiring people I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe. Maya Angelou breathe magic ocean
