1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

Carefullythe leaves of autumnsprinkle down the tinnysound of little dyingsand skies satedof ruddy sunsetsof roseate dawns roil ceaselessly in cobweb grey and turnto blackfor comfort.

I left the room because, and only because, we had said all we could say. The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no crafts to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.

Lovers think quite different thoughtswhile lying side by side.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

I was no longer simply a member of the proud graduating class of 1940; I was a proud member of the wonderful, beautiful Negro race.

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?

Baby, I've been thinking and now I am sure. You are the greatest woman I've ever met.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.