You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.' — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution.… — 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
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love a statement by the apostle Paul, in the Book of Philippians in the Bible. I think the Corinthians had been… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,… — 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
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
