Maya AngelouEach time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. … ▶371ReadingThoughtTime
Maya AngelouIt's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. ✨ Maya Angelou (2… ▶371Humanity
Maya AngelouI'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats … ▶371Love
Maya AngelouLove is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style. ✨ Biography/Persona… ▶372HumanityLove
Maya AngelouThe truth will lead me to all. ✨ Twitter post from Sep 25, 2013372Truth
Maya AngelouMost plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ✨ 1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.35361Death
Maya AngelouPeople will never forget how you made them feel. ✨ Maya Angelou (2014). Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou, p.37, Random House373HumanityPhilosophy
Maya AngelouShakespeare must be a black girl. ✨ 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Maya Angelou’s Incredible Life by Amanda Scherker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.373Life
Maya AngelouWe, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love … ▶351LifeLoveSadness
Maya AngelouWhen I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way.351Reading
Maya AngelouForgive yourself - no one else will.351Reading
Maya AngelouI had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. ✨ Twitter post from Jan 07, 2016373LifeLove
Maya AngelouI'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a mat… ▶373Time
Maya AngelouThe fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable ou… ▶362Truth
Maya AngelouI long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. ✨ FaceBook post byMaya Angelou from Feb 28, 2013351HumanityReadingTime
Maya AngelouIt's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. ✨ Twitter post from Jul 21, 2016351Humanity
Maya AngelouDon't bring negative to my door.351Humor
Maya AngelouOn this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other. ✨ Maya Angelou (2014). Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit… ▶373Philosophy
Maya AngelouBe certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity. ✨ FaceBook post byMaya Angelou from Jun 02, 2010351DeathHumanityReading
Maya AngelouThe most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. ✨ Twitter post from May 19, 2013352Love
Maya AngelouIt is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. ✨ Maya Angelou (2011). Wouldn't Ta… ▶374Politics
Maya AngelouI walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. ✨ Maya Angelou (2015). The Complete Poetry, p.135, Random House363Reading
Maya AngelouWhen women take care of their health they become their own best friend. ✨ FaceBook post byMaya Angelou from Aug 01, 2012341Reading
Maya AngelouI love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very bless… ▶374HumanityLifeLove
Maya AngelouPeople are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.363Humanity
Maya AngelouThe woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough. ✨ Maya Angelou (2011). Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, p.6, Bantam374Philosophy
Maya AngelouEarly on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could … ▶363Thought
Maya AngelouThe sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. ✨ 1975 Interview … ▶374LifeLoveSadness
Maya AngelouAchievement brings its own anticlimax. ✨ Breaking the Glass Ceiling by Barbara R. Arnwine, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2010.374Philosophy
Maya AngelouThe idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.341HumanityLoveThought
