Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them, — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You said to lean on your arm And I am leaning You said to trust in your love And I am trusting… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming. — 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
