“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream. — 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
Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance. Lost, injured, hurt by chance. I screamed to the heavens…loudly screamed… Trying to change our nightmares… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Lift up your eyes upon This day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Women, children, men, Take it into… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The incident was a recurring dream, concocted years before by stupid whites and it eternally came back to haunt us all. The… — 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
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black… — 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
