Maya Angelou Quotes About Wisdom

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

• When you know better you do better.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

• There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2010

• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Communication

• Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

  Maya Angelou

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

  'His Day Is Done' - Poem in Tribute to Nelson Mandela, delivered December 2013

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