The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure. — 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
It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything?… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other. — 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
