If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
MAYA ANGELOUIf you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
MAYA ANGELOUThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
MAYA ANGELOUThe problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
MAYA ANGELOUDon’t let the man bring you down.
MAYA ANGELOUTo those who are given much, much is expected.
MAYA ANGELOUThe need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
MAYA ANGELOUI believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOUTalent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
MAYA ANGELOUMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOUMy mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
MAYA ANGELOUMaking a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
MAYA ANGELOUTry to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
MAYA ANGELOUNothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOUI hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MAYA ANGELOUThe main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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