Maya Angelou

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Maya Angelou

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

Maya Angelou

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Maya Angelou

I live in an atmosphere of music.

Maya Angelou

I long for the time when all the human history is taught as one history, because it really is one history.

Maya Angelou

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

Maya Angelou

I love living. I love that I’m alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn’t wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.

Maya Angelou

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

Maya Angelou

I love the song ‘I Hope You Dance’ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

Maya Angelou

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Maya Angelou