There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need… — 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
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth.… — 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
