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… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mother had said me, "All right, you've been raised, so don't let anybody else raise you. You know the difference between… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“If I survived at all, it would be a triumph. If I swam, it would be a miracle. As I unlocked my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“One morning as I was leaving, the director said I didn't have to leave the set anymore. What happened? Why did they… — 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
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i went out… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Then came that terrible Christmas with its awful presents when our father, with the vanity I was to find typical, sent his… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Our Father, thank you for letting me see this New Day. Thank you that you didn't allow the bed I lay on… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I missed you but I knew you were in the best place for you. I would have been a terrible mother. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You’re itching to be on your own. You don’t want anybody telling you what time you have to be in at night… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I laughed too, but not at the hateful jokes made on my people.I laughed because, except that she was white, the big… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — 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
