I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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
I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or… — 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
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something -… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Being thankful helps you to be present.People commit errors because they are not present.I would encourage women and men to be present… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood! — 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
You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know? — 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
I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it.… — 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
