1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice - but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Laugh as much as you can.