We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.'… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves… — 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
