Quotes from Maya Angelou

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

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

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

Being a woman is hard work.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.