My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to And someone… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being. — 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
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sometimes the people whom we've known only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. — 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
