Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we… — 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
