Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth. — 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
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Life had a conveyor-belt quality. It went on unpursued and unpursuing” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled. — 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
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for… — 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
“Modesty is a learned adaptation. It’s stuck on like decals. As soon as life slams a modest person against the wall, that… — 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
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good… — 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
Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. — 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
Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Hadn't I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living?” — 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
