I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make… — 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
People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something -… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And… — 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've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — 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
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — 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
I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people. — 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've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody. — 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
There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it… — 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
