If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day… — 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
