I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We can see, from California to New York, from Maine to Florida, Seattle to New Mexico - everywhere there are women's groups.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — 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 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
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived… — 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
In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is… — 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
![“The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ec/maya-angelou-104_adversaries_the-country-didn-t-get-that-way-in-a-wee_660911.jpg)
![“In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim volume called The Prince. In that book he showed the powers that be how to control the people. That book is a statement: separate and rule, divide and conquer. That's five…” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d4/maya-angelou-104_book_in-the-16th-century-niccol-machiavelli-i_1257168.jpg)
