1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.