To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been. — 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
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. — 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
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 think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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
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
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 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
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
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
