We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“His day is done. Is done. The news came on the wings of a wind, reluctant to carry its burden. Nelson Mandela’s… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Being thankful helps you to be present.People commit errors because they are not present.I would encourage women and men to be present… — 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, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
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 friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
