I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking… — 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
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater. — 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
