Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many… — 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
By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage 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
