We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how… — 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 serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care,… — 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
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
The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Lift up your eyes upon This day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Women, children, men, Take it into… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn… — 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,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — 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. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its… — 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
I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
