Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — 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
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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 Image
