“All my ways of being are musical and mysterious. Yet I embrace you openly. Ripe with expectancy.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I asked for the music, then invited it to enter my body and find the broken and sore places and restore them” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Watch for me and you will see That I’m present in the songs that children sing.” People” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I’d call a place pure paradise where families are loyal and strangers are nice, where the music is jazz and the season… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“When the main crowd of worshipers reached the short bridge spanning the pond, the ragged sound of honky-tonk music assailed them. A… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
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… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
