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
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.'… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell… — 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
A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will… — 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
