Maya Angelou Quotes

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

Living well is an art that can be developed.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

Facts can obscure the truth.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

Don't let the man bring you down.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

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.

Laugh as much as you can.

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

Have enough courage to love.

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

Look for the beauty in things.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.