1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn’t it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

I’m a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

You’re not serious; you’re boring as hell.

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

A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection – children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren’t nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren’t, we should behave as though we are – cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.