Maya Angelou

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Maya Angelou

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Maya Angelou

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it’s more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

Maya Angelou

If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

Maya Angelou

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Maya Angelou

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Maya Angelou

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Maya Angelou

In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

Maya Angelou

In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.

Maya Angelou

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Maya Angelou