1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.

You never get over the fear of writing.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.