Best Maya Angelou Words
- For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries… Around Books
- 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… Carry
- I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The… Apologies
- I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence… Allyson
- I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine… Country
- If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective… All
- If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you… All
- Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write… Approached
- Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and… Angelou
- That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to… Anybody
- To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the… Adjectives
- To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. Climbing
- You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. All
- Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am… Adventure
- I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take… Air
- A mother's love liberates. Inspirational
- We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American… America
- 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… All
- The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to… Airborne
- The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around… Able
- ...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the… All
- Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail… All
- I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here.… Any
- Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is… Add
- Every journey begins with a single step. Begins
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