Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — 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
Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of… — 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
I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and… — 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
I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.… — 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
The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and… — 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
I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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
In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides… — 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
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 Image
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ec/maya-angelou-104_adversaries_the-country-didn-t-get-that-way-in-a-wee_660911.jpg)
