You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
love builds up the broken wall
and straigtens the crooked path.
love keeps the stars in the firmament
and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides
each of us is created of it
and i suspect
each of us was created for it - Maya Angelou. View more images...
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, "I am with you kid. Let's go. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. - Maya Angelou. View more images...
kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect - Maya Angelou. View more images...
Ive learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." - Maya Angelou. View more images...
The 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. - Maya Angelou. View more images...