1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.