When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof… — 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
I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to… — 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
