Maya Angelou Quotes (173 Quotes)

At the worst of times, there's the possibility of seeing hope, ... That's why that song is so important right now.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chance to look at her and see what she did and who she was. It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.

There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

All God's children need traveling shoes.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

She's my sister friend and I pray for her and her children. Everybody, please give a good thought, a positive thought for Coretta.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.

Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.

The horizon leans forward, Offering you space to place new steps of change.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no

I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time.

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

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre in order to oppose street gangs. We should have a well-supported regional theatre in order to oppose regionalism and