You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a… — 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
Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world… — 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
