My mother had said me, "All right, you've been raised, so don't let anybody else raise you. You know the difference between… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have… — 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
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done… — 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
