As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
MAYA ANGELOUAs soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
MAYA ANGELOUYou may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
MAYA ANGELOUWhen someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
MAYA ANGELOUI don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
MAYA ANGELOUEach time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
MAYA ANGELOUA friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
MAYA ANGELOUEach person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
MAYA ANGELOUThe main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
MAYA ANGELOUMy 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 ANGELOUWhen we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
MAYA ANGELOUI did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
MAYA ANGELOUThe ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
MAYA ANGELOUIf you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
MAYA ANGELOUThe problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
MAYA ANGELOUPoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
MAYA ANGELOUI’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
MAYA ANGELOU