I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it… — 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
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
I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a… — 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
I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing… — 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
