1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

Yet it is only love which sets us free.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

He loved her. ... she can be talking to me about regular things but when she mentions Martin, her voice always falls a little bit and you can sense the intimacy. ... The sweetness of that relationship was always evident.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.