I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know 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
