1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.

I looked up the way I was going and back the way I come and since I wasn't satisfied I stepped off and [found] me a new path.

Sua avó diz que você lê muito. Em todas as oportunidades que tem. Isso é bom, mas não o suficiente. Palavras significam mais do que é colocado no papel. É preciso a voz humana para dar a elas as nuances do significado mais profundo.

الطير المحبوس يغردفي رعشة خوفمن أشياء لا يعرفهالكن مازال يتوق إليهافيسمع لحنهمن أقصى التللأن الطير المحبوسيغني للحرية.

الرجال.يوماً ما سيمسكونكِ في راحات أيديهمفي رقةٍ .. كما لو كنتِآخرَ بيضةٍ نيئةٍ في العالم.

Of course I could drive. Idiots and lunatics drove cars. Why not the brilliant Marguerite Johnson?

Comprendía la perversidad de la vida, la de que en la lucha estriba la alegría.

The heavy opulence of Dostoevsky's world was where I had lived forever. The gloomy, lightless interiors, the complex ratiocinations of the characters and their burdensome humors, were as familiar to me as loneliness.