“If you know that youth is dying on the run and my daughter trades dope stories with your son we'd better see… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Turning off or tuning out people was my highly developed art. The custom of letting obedient children be seen but not heard… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Lift up your eyes upon This day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Women, children, men, Take it into… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“We must re-create an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children are to approve of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
