Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading. — 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
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
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation… — 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
A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as… — 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
All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman,… — 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
