If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.