Quotes from Maya Angelou

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

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail- and learn powerful lessons- from the failure- so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible and live long lives.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.

Have enough courage to trust love, one more time.

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.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Ive learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to And someone to love.

Some think that love is all flowers and good times, but I think that love is more than just that. Love is the bad, as well as the better, not lived alone, but a journey together. Something that only the closest can share, with communication, respect,

Love builds up the broken wall and straigtens the crooked path. love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

You may not control all of the events that happen to you but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that.

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.