Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day,… — 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
One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how… — 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
I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — 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
I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's… — 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
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
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
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I… — 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
