The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love? — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Many believe that they need company at any cost, and certainly if a thing is desired at any cost, it will be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“We must re-create an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children are to approve of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides… — 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 am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for… — 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
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within… — 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
