Born Quote by Maya Angelou

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently

— Maya Angelou

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

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

“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

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

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

— Maya Angelou

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

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

“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

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

— Maya Angelou

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

— Maya Angelou

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