I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so… — 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
“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
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
Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it.… — 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
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I… — 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
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
“After that exercise, the ship of my life might or might not be sailing on calm seas. The challenging days of my… — 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
“love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i went out… — 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
When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life. — 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
