Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You are only free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the… — 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
“Being free is as difficult and as perpetual — or rather fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“ Caged Bird A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips… — 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
