Maya Angelou Quotes
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
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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.
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I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother - Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.
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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
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I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
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It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
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Petulant priests, greedy centurions, and one million incensed gestures stand between your love and me.
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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
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Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
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Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.
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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
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I went to sleep last night and I arose with the dawn, I know that there are others who're still sleeping on, They've gone away, You've let me stay, I want to thank You.
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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
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I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
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Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross and hatred is the ballast of the rock