1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.

This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.

Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

And still I rise

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.