Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love? — 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
One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The love of the family, the love of one person, can heal. It heals the scars left by society. A massive, powerful… — 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 sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution… — 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
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The naturally lonely person does not look for comfort in love, but accepts the variables as due course.” — 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
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
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
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
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
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
I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When women take care of their health they become their own best friend. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.' — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all. — 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