I came up with the name 'The Undefeated' the day Maya Angelou died. It took eight months to get the name approved. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
I didn't know there was an extra 'a' in Maya Angelou! I spelled it like 'Mya' the singer. — Chi Chi DeVayne Copy Share Image
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As cliche as that sounds, Maya Angelou is one of the best writers I've ever read. She's very wise and to the… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.-Maya Angelou” — Debra Russell Copy Share Image
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. maya angelou” — Franklin Veaux Copy Share Image
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. —Maya Angelou” — Marie Force Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
“People will not remember what you say. People will not remember what you do. They will always remember how you made them… — Mollie Bickle Cardwell Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
“The idea is to write so that people hear it, and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”… — C. S. Lakin Copy Share Image
From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“ Maya Angelou entered our lives at Virago in 1984, when we first published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings .… — Lennie Goodings Copy Share Image
“woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. The next year, I chose Still I Rise and socked it to the competition again. First… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't… — Nancy Arroyo Ruffin Copy Share Image
“The kindnesses … I never forget them. And so they keep one from becoming bitter. They encourage you to be as strong,… — Jeffrey M. Elliot Copy Share Image
“Nikhilananda’s birthday. Maybe we’d Morris dance, naked, around the base of an old-growth California redwood, its branches lavishly festooned with the soiled… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala! — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." -Maya Angelou” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)” — by Jeffrey M. Elliot Copy Share Image
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. —Maya Angelou” — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“When a Person Shows You Who They Are Believe Them.” -Maya Angelou” — Christine F. Anderson Copy Share Image
“You are only free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place—no place at all. The price is high. The… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
