1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I'm young as morningand fresh as dew.Everybody loves meand so do you.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

Few, if any, survive their teens.

Youthful cynicism is sad to observe, because it indicates not so much knowledge learned from bitter experiences as insufficient trust even to attempt the future.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Why do you dislike people?" "I didn't say I disliked people. Not to like people isn't the same as to dislike them." He sounded profound and I needed time to mull over that idea.