I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings. — 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
No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a… — 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 have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with… — 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
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we… — 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 long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved. — 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
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