One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that 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, 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
