Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and… — 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
Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be… — 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
The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“One morning as I was leaving, the director said I didn't have to leave the set anymore. What happened? Why did they… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America’s great novel that ‘You Can’t Go Home Again.’ I enjoyed the book but I… — 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
