I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in… — 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
