Maya Angelou Quotes
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I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
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I got my own back.
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
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I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
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I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.
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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 write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
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I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
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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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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
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I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
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How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
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'Glory Falls'