1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

Life loves the person who dares to live it.

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.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

The future is plump with promise.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.