Maya Angelou

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Maya Angelou

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‘I write for money.’ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Maya Angelou

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

Maya Angelou

I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be ok.

Maya Angelou

I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

Maya Angelou

I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.

Maya Angelou

I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

Maya Angelou

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

Maya Angelou

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Maya Angelou

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

Maya Angelou