“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's… — 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
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Hope is born again in the faces of children. It rides on the shoulders of our aged as they walk into their… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and… — 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
![“My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by…” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/887/maya-angelou-104_18th-century_my-people-couldn-t-have-survived-slavery_2520308.jpg)
