Maya Angelou's Quotes

Maya Angelou's Quotes 236

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the...

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean,...

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether...

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white,...

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have...

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old....

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of...

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when...

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl...

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart...

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there...

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God...

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong...

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love...

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Life loves the liver of it.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both...

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than...

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can...

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with...

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so...

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

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