It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. — 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
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
It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, "Well, that's the end, I'll never have to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well,… — 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
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would… — 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 learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar,… — 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
When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't… — 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
