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
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — 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
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
