Quotes by Maya Angelou
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
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.
Success… Is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.
Determine to live life with flair and laughter.
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don
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.
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
I�ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
I know why the caged bird sings.
Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. Wouldn'
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,
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'
I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
Don't bring negative to my door.
