How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! Maya Angelou celebrateheroimportant Change image and share on social
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou acceptcouragecry Change image and share on social
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. Maya Angelou destroyessaygive share on social
It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it. Maya Angelou failgiveincontrovertible Change image and share on social
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. Maya Angelou borderlosslove Change image and share on social
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' Maya Angelou kidlapellife Change image and share on social
The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled. Maya Angelou agingbeadbig share on social
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do. Maya Angelou chickengenerouslot Change image and share on social
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me. Maya Angelou humilitypaypeople share on social
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience. Maya Angelou acceptagobeing Change image and share on social
