Maya Angelou

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Maya Angelou

The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It’s fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don’t think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.

Maya Angelou

The intensity with which young people live demands that they ‘blank out’ as often as possible.

Maya Angelou

The knowledge that we had the power to upset that goddess made us look at each other conspiratorially and smile. It also made her human.

Maya Angelou

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Maya Angelou

The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Maya Angelou

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

Maya Angelou

The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Maya Angelou

The naturally lonely person does not look for comfort in love, but accepts the variables as due course.

Maya Angelou