“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The love of the family, the love of one person, can heal. It heals the scars left by society. A massive, powerful… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I’d call a place pure paradise where families are loyal and strangers are nice, where the music is jazz and the season… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“there are times when no one is right, and sometimes among family and children, no one can admit that there is no… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only… — 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 friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
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, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
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 friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
