You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there. — 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
I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it.… — 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
I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would… — 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
