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
I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it. — 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
I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been… — 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
Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the… — 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
If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have… — 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
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
Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something -… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in… — 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
If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world? — 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
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
