Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary… — 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
My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a… — 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
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