Quotes from Maya Angelou

Me resulta interesante que la vida más miserable, la existencia más pobre, se atribuya a la voluntad divina, pero, a medida que los seres humanos se encuentran más acomodados, a medida que su nivel y estilo de vida empiezan a ascender por la escala material, Dios desciende por la de la responsabilidad con la misma rapidez

I was no longer simply a member of the proud graduating class of 1940; I was a proud member of the wonderful, beautiful Negro race.

History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unloved, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again.

I'll believe in Liberals' aid for us When I see a white man load a Black man's gun.

I've sailed upon the seven seas and stopped in every land, I've seen the wonders of the world, not yet one common man.

Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them They say they still can't see. I say, It's in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave

Can't do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.

Centered on the world's stage, she sings to her loves and beloveds, to her foes and detractors: However I am perceived and deceived, however my ignorance and conceits, lay aside your fears that I will be undone, for I shall not be moved.

You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.

The sounds of tag beat through the trees while the top branches waved in contrapuntal rhythms. I lay on a moment of green grass and telescoped the children's game to my vision. The girls ran about wild, now here, now there, never here, never was, they seemed to have no more direction than a splattered egg. But it was a shared if seldom voiced knowledge that all movements fitted, and worked according to a larger plan.

I couldn't distinguish whether I was smelling the clutching sound of misery or hearing the cloying odor of death.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but, people will never forget how you made them feel.

She worked the thread through the flowered cloth as if she were sewing the torn ends of her life together.

They were reminded in a popular song of the times, If you can't smile and say yes, please don't cry and say no.

La gente olvidará lo que dijiste, la gente olvidará lo que hiciste, pero la gente nunca olvidará cómo la hiciste sentir

If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

I, an alarm, awake as a / rumor of war, / lie stretching into dawn, / unasked and unheeded.

Humility says there were people before me who found the path. I'm a road builder. For those who are yet to come, I seem to be finding the path and they will be road builders. That keeps one humble. Love keeps one humble.

At last life was getting itself in joint.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude!

When great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Here this clean mirror traps me unwilling in a gone time when I was love and you were booted and brave and trembling for me.