I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it -… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the… — 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'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it -… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. — 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
Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I have learned to accept my responsibility and to forgive myself first, then to apologise to anyone injured by my misreckoning.” — 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
