If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.
Maya AngelouBy no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.
Maya AngelouIf I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
Maya AngelouI love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.
Maya Angelou