1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you.

I want you to write down your blessings.

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

If you want to stay around here like death eating a soda cracker, that's your business.

Why should I be afraid of you?'He was still laughing. He said 'Maybe you think I'll think you are a missionary and I'll eat you.'I said 'I don't think that anyway. If more Africans had eaten more missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

I wanted to be a woman, but that seemed to me to be a world to which I was to be eternally refused entrance.What I needed was a boyfriend. A boyfriend would clarify my position to the world and, even more important, to myself. A boyfriend's acceptance of me would guide me into that strange and exotic land of frills and femininity.

Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve to peer into my eyes while I within deny their threats and answer them with lies. Mushlike memories perform a ritual on my lips I lie in stolid hopelessness and they lay my soul in strips.

Me resulta interesante que la vida más miserable, la existencia más pobre, se atribuya a la voluntad divina, pero, a medida que los seres humanos se encuentran más acomodados, a medida que su nivel y estilo de vida empiezan a ascender por la escala material, Dios desciende por la de la responsabilidad con la misma rapidez