1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

It was the awakening summer of 1960 and the entire country was in labor. Something wonderful was about to be born, and we were all going to be good parents to the welcome child. Its name was Freedom.