Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love… — 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
