If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect… — 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
“I said, “What do I think? That's what I'm asking you? What is there to think?” “Looks like he wants you to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A… — 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
Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When women take care of their health they become their own best friend. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
[E]very day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. — 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