Quote

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

Maya Angelou

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
Author
Autobiographer
Comedian
Dancer
Essayist
Film Director
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
Honest
Sure
Truth
Trying
Work
Make
Think
Clearly
Thinking
Courage

More quotes by Maya Angelou

Image
Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.
Maya Angelou
Image
Effective action is always unjust.
Maya Angelou
Image
To those who are given much, much is expected.
Maya Angelou
Image
Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
Maya Angelou
Image
We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.
Maya Angelou
Image
Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
Maya Angelou
Image
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.
Maya Angelou
Image
I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
Maya Angelou
Image
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Maya Angelou
Image
I sustain myself with the love of family.
Maya Angelou
Image
Everybody is worth everything.
Maya Angelou
Image
When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
Maya Angelou
Image
If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?
Maya Angelou
Image
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou
Image
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.
Maya Angelou
Image
At our best, we're all teachers
Maya Angelou
Image
Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.
Maya Angelou
Image
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Maya Angelou
Image
Forgive yourself - no one else will.
Maya Angelou
Image
Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.
Maya Angelou