Maya Angelou best Courage Quotes – “You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative.'”
Maya Angelou best Courage Quotes – “We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!”
Maya Angelou best Courage Quotes – “The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.”
Maya Angelou best Courage Quotes – “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”
Maya Angelou best Communication Quotes – “Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.”
Maya Angelou best Family Quotes – “The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.”
Maya Angelou best Family Quotes – “I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.”
Maya Angelou best Family Quotes – “At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.”
Maya Angelou best Experience Quotes – “I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.”
Maya Angelou best Experience Quotes – “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.”
Maya Angelou best Education Quotes – “In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.”
Maya Angelou best Education Quotes – “My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
Maya Angelou best Dreams Quotes – “I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.”
Maya Angelou best Dreams Quotes – “When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.”
Maya Angelou best Death Quotes – “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”