It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Having courage does not mean we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We can see, from California to New York, from Maine to Florida, Seattle to New Mexico - everywhere there are women's groups.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary… — 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 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
I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do… — 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
![“My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by…” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/887/maya-angelou-104_18th-century_my-people-couldn-t-have-survived-slavery_2520308.jpg)
