1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

She was a sister-friend to me, we called each other 'children sisters.' She was a great wife, obviously, and a wonderful mother and a great woman, a great American. When I think of great Americans she's one of the people I think of.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?