Quotes from Maya Angelou

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!