Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it.… — 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
In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I like good food. People want a certain taste, but when they're offered something else, they'll overeat. If they really are looking… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do… — 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
