Quotes about Maya Angelou

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Since life is our most precious gift And since it is given to us to live but once, Let us so live that we will not regret

Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece—it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Segregation shaped me education liberated me.