1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

Love liberates; it doesn't bind.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Don't trust people who don't laugh

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is shown in language. We need language.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

The truth will lead me to all.