Maya Angelou

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

Maya Angelou

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don’t laugh enough. I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.

Maya Angelou

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

Maya Angelou

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Maya Angelou

I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it’s your gift of energy to them.

Maya Angelou

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Maya Angelou

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Maya Angelou

I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

Maya Angelou

I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

Maya Angelou

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Maya Angelou