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
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people… — 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
