1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.

Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region’s only enfranchised citizen.

Don’t bring negative to my door.

It’s true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear, I rise.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, ‘Just a minute. I’m worth everything, dear.’

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use.