Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.