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
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
If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves. — 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
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
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like… — 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
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
My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides… — 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
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
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
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
Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're… — 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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