Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you… — 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
