I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself. — 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… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I like good food. People want a certain taste, but when they're offered something else, they'll overeat. If they really are looking… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong. — 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
