Maya Angelou

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Maya Angelou

I made bitterness into a wad and swallowed it.

Maya Angelou

I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

Maya Angelou

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Maya Angelou

I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

Maya Angelou

I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Maya Angelou

I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, ‘Can I be of help?’

Maya Angelou

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

Maya Angelou

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Maya Angelou

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Maya Angelou