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 did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better. Maya Angelo” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. — 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
“Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go!” — 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
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
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. — 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
