I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the… — 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
