Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
Maya AngelouYou don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
Maya AngelouI like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.
Maya AngelouIt's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
Maya AngelouWe are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
Maya AngelouI thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do.
Maya Angelou