1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world, that is when, and only when we come to it

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation.

We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.