I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it -… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't… — 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
