I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mother had said me, "All right, you've been raised, so don't let anybody else raise you. You know the difference between… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“One morning as I was leaving, the director said I didn't have to leave the set anymore. What happened? Why did they… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say.… — 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
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. — 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
When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than… — 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
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You’re itching to be on your own. You don’t want anybody telling you what time you have to be in at night… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it… — 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
