Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to And someone… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Modesty is a learned adaptation. It’s stuck on like decals. As soon as life slams a modest person against the wall, that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. Excitement is a drug, and people… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take… — 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
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Hadn't I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living?” — 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
