1,440 Quotes by maya angelou

I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Preach it, I say preach it.

Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.