“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being unaware. And the worst part… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw… — 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
