“ I walk into a roomJust as cool as you please,And to a man,The fellows stand orFall down on their knees. Maya Angelou
“ I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trou… Maya Angelou
“ Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in… Maya Angelou
“ Although I enjoyed and respected Kipling, Poe, Butler, Thackeray and Henley, I saved my young and loyal passion for Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois' Lita… Maya Angelou
“ You see, baby, you have to protect yourself. If you don’t protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you. I thought about that for a second. She was right. A woman needs to… Maya Angelou
“ You said to lean on your armAnd I am leaning You said to trust in your loveAnd I am trusting You said to call on your name And I am calling I'm stepping out on your word Maya Angelou
“ To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender… Maya Angelou
“ That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valley… Maya Angelou
“ Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind. Maya Angelou
“ Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your ta… Maya Angelou
“ In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be… Maya Angelou
“ Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back unin… Maya Angelou
“ If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the… Maya Angelou
“ They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you. Maya Angelou
“ If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived? Maya Angelou
“ It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers). Maya Angelou
“ Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying Maya Angelou
