Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. — 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
We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following 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