[E]very day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“During these years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The naturally lonely person does not look for comfort in love, but accepts the variables as due course.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being. — 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