1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy.

I knew I was given to dramatic overstatement, or was known to waffle about repetitiously. To further complicate matters, I was sincere. Sincerity badly stated elicits mistrust.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications.

Now they seemed not ready to give up the old school, the familiar paths and classrooms.

Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.