Quotes from Maya Angelou

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

I live in an atmosphere of music.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Effective action is always unjust.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

People will never forget how you made them feel.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Don't bring negative to my door.