Maya Angelou

I try to see every day as a celebration.

Maya Angelou

I walk into a room just as cool as you please, and to a man, the fellows stand or fall down on their knees.

Maya Angelou

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world’s variety and uniqueness.

Maya Angelou

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that’s in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

Maya Angelou

I was always yours to have. You were always mine. We have loved each other in and out of time.

Maya Angelou

I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.

Maya Angelou

I was liked, and what a difference it made.

Maya Angelou

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Maya Angelou

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child’s mind – seven and a half years old – I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

Maya Angelou

I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Maya Angelou