1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

A certain person wondered whya big strong girl like mewouldn't keep a jobwhich paid a normal salary.I took my time to lead herand to read her every page.Even minimal peoplecan't survive on minimal wage.A certain person wondered whyI wait all week for you.I didn't have the wordsto describe just what you do.I said you had the motionof the ocean in your walk,and when you solve my riddlesyou don't even have to talk.

Dancing liberated me and even made me feel as if my body had a reason to be

Miss Kirwin proved Bailey right. He had told me once that "all knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

...Jon, larger and more gentle, moved slowly, spoke seldom and seemed to have burdened with the responsibility of pondering the world's imponderables.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

A smart man only tells half of what he thinks.

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.