Quotes About Maya Angelou

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Segregation shaped me education liberated me.

I head for my closet after school. I want to take the poster of Maya Angelou home, and I'd like to keep some of my tree pictures and my turkey-bone sculpture. The rest of the stuff can stay, so long as it doesn't have my name on it. Who knows, some other kids may need a safe place to run to next year.

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

As cliche as that sounds, Maya Angelou is one of the best writers I've ever read. She's very wise and to the point.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I've always found inspiration in icons that were really of purpose in their craft or calling. From Bob Marley to Maya Angelou to Malcolm X, inspiration came from seeing how committed they were to their vision and determining it themselves.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

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.

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible…We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

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The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives are filled with violence are always wondering where the next fix is coming from.

The knowledge that we had the power to upset that goddess made us look at each other conspiratorially and smile. It also made her human.

The allegiances I owed at this time in my life would have made very strange bedfellows: Momma with her solemn determination, Mrs. Flowers and her books, Bailey with his love, my mother and her gaiety, Miss Kirwin and her information, my evening classes of drama and dance.

She's one of our fans. She comes to the theater and allows us to curse and berate her, and that's her contribution to our struggle." Roscoe

Miss Glory went on to say that the doctor had taken all her lady organs. I reasoned that a pig organ's included the lungs, heart, and liver, so if Mrs. Cullinan was walking around without those essentials, it explained why she drank alcohol out of unmarked bottles. She was keeping herself embalmed.

We French, we have never, never, never had slavery, so we feel we don't understand the American racism." Maybe

He told me what I could do to myself, which was a sexual impossibility.

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