We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking… — 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
We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sometimes the people whom we've known only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I like good food. People want a certain taste, but when they're offered something else, they'll overeat. If they really are looking… — 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
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
In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't… — 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
It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, "Well, that's the end, I'll never have to… — 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
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