Quotes about Experience
My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.
— Maya Angelou
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
— Maya Angelou
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
— Maya Angelou
Adults had lost the wisdom from the surface of their faces. I reasoned that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
— Maya Angelou
During these years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.
— Maya Angelou
Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does.
— Maya Angelou
after all, girls have to giggle, and after being a woman for theee years I was about to become a girl.
— Maya Angelou
Today is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
— Maya Angelou
The only thing you own is your story. Make sure it's a good one.
— Maya Angelou
Knowing Momma, I knew that I never knew Momma.
— Maya Angelou
But they talked, and from the side of the building where I waited for the ground to open up and swallow me, I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and melting.
— Maya Angelou
His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age, but his face believed the freshness of his words, and I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.
— Maya Angelou