Maya Angelou Quotes
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.
Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.
A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.