Quotes from Maya Angelou

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility.

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. I want to experience every good thing.

Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

Ive learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

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.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Life loves the liver of it.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I am with you kid. Let's go

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same as 'making a life'.

Freedom is never free.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

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

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bi.... You've got to go out and kick ass.

The future is plump with promise.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.