1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

It is not the answer you look for that makes you strong. It's the ways that you take that define who you are and what you can do.

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect

Forgive yourself - no one else will.

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.