The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sometimes the people whom we've known only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more… — 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
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The resignation of its inhabitants encouraged me to relax. They showed me a contentment based on the belief that nothing more was… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a… — 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
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't miss Mrs. Flowers, for she had given me her secret word which called forth a djinn who was to serve… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Since life is our most precious gift And since it is given to us to live but once, Let us so live… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes… — 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
