"Give yourself time just to be with yourself." #MayaAngelou

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength." #MayaAngelou Happy #Hispanic and #Latinx Heritage Month! facebook.com/MayaAngelou/ph…

"The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming." #MayaAngelou

“What I really want to do is be a representative of my race, of the human race...I know that when I finish doing what I’m sent here to do, I will be called home. And I will go home without any fear, trepidations, wondering what’s gonna happen.” #MayaAngelou

“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up - lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are." #MayaAngelou

"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." #MayaAngelou

"My wish for you is joy. When you wish someone joy, you wish peace, love, prosperity, health, happiness... all the good things." #MayaAngelou Our wish for you, your family, and your community is joy. Happy Thanksgiving! -The Angelou Johnson Family

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! 🍁🦃So Grateful for God giving us the blessings we have and the blesssings we will receive. ❤️🙏🏻💪🏻🌈

"I know that when I pray something wonderful happens, not only for the person that I am praying for, but also for me. I am being heard." #MayaAngelou

"Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs: the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.” #MayaAngelou

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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." #MayaAngelou

"Blessings as we journey into the New Year with gratitude." #MayaAngelou #NYE #HappyNewYear -The Angelou Johnson Family

"Let me remind all women that we live longer and better lives when we have sisters we love, not necessarily born in our bloodline or of our race. Sisters." #MayaAngelou Oprah Winfrey 💐 Happy Birthday!

"Welcome to Black History Month. Black History is our history, White, Black, Asian, Spanish-Speaking and Native American, Everyone, our people." #MayaAngelou #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

“#Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.” #MayaAngelou

Don’t wait for people to VALIDATE you by how many likes/views & retweets you get because that don’t dictate how IMPORTANT you are because what happens if that all stops today🤷🏾‍♀️You are going to have to MENTALLY KNOW YOUR OWN WORTH!💯✍🏾

"When I decided to speak, I had a lot to say." #MayaAngelou Learn more and watch the American Masters award-winning Maya Angelou Film, available on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play. -The estate of Dr. Maya Angelou fb.watch/jhRbQRpOIw/