I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do. — 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
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
That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you… — 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
Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new… — 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
Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where… — 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
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour,… — 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
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
You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here… — 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've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa,… — 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
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
