“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of "You may… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth. — 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
We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. — 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
