Maya Angelou Quotes

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Living well is an art that can be developed.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

Every journey begins with a single step.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.