I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my… — 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
