1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.

I know something better is on the road for me.

You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'