Maya Angelou

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

Maya Angelou

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Maya Angelou

My people had used music to soothe slavery’s torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

Maya Angelou

My seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.

Maya Angelou

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

Maya Angelou

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

Maya Angelou

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

Maya Angelou

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

Maya Angelou

Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.

Maya Angelou

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

Maya Angelou