Maya Angelou

Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

Maya Angelou

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

Maya Angelou

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

Maya Angelou

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Maya Angelou

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Maya Angelou

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

Maya Angelou

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

Maya Angelou

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Maya Angelou

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

Maya Angelou

I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

Maya Angelou