When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would… — 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
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day… — 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
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn… — 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
