I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible,… — 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
