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
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
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
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
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
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, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing… — 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
Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how… — 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
A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mother had said me, "All right, you've been raised, so don't let anybody else raise you. You know the difference between… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65,… — 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
...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
Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know? — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
