The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — 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
“Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Upon certain subject I am able to hold my tongue and hope that time will right wrongs.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“there are times when no one is right, and sometimes among family and children, no one can admit that there is no… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“It is by observation that in the future they will not remember what you said, they will not remember what you did,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman,… — 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
