The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.


Maya Angelou

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Caged Bird

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream ti...
MAYA ANGELOU
At least the caged bird still sings.
ANDONI GARCIA
I know why the caged bird sings.
MAYA ANGELOU
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
MAYA ANGELOU
People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only b...
MAYA ANGELOU
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man ...
MAYA ANGELOU
It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already tra...
MAYA ANGELOU
The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same t...
MAYA ANGELOU
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young ...
MAYA ANGELOU
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor...
GERMAINE GREER
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the w...
EMILY DICKINSON
I am a caged bird,
rattling the bars of my cage,
with furious flutterings,
break my c...
STEVEN JAMES
Maya Angelo...
LENNIE GOODINGS
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats h...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
It is the beautiful bird which gets caged
CHINESE PROVERBS
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON
Be not a caged bird because all may be available in there, from diet to defense,but what of freedom?
PRABHA
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the ...
EMILY DICKINSON
A bird cannot love freely when caged.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
EARLY BIRD
Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird
And catch the worm for your breakfast ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
ROBERT BURTON
DEPARTURE

The horizon slopes away

The days are longer
Trip

A...
PIERRE REVERDY
If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter ...
RAQUEL CEPEDA
It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true...
ANNA WICKHAM
I caught a red bird once,
I fell in love with her,
Took the red bird home with me,
I...
QUETZAL
As the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle, Moves him to think what ki...
JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET"
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONET
Freedom is entering from one confine to another with an instant feeling of joy and happiness, just l...
CHANDAN KUMAR DE
A bird sang sweet and strong
In the top of the highest tree,
He said, "I pour out my heart i...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Over the boundary of time,
Hope transcends,
Desire sings,
One verse,
One song, DEBASISH MRIDHA
Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO
Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!"
"You're a bird."
"Now say you're a bird too."
"I...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Everyone calls him Blockhead
No one sings his praises
Or takes him to heart...

...
KENJI MIYAZAWA
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the arti...
ALMA GLUCK
"As the bird sings it's not the sounds that you feel, but the echoes of its heart." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
WES CRAVEN
The real flight of this hawk is impending.

Still,this bird is yet to be tested for real.<...
ARUNIMA SINHA
When a Wanderess has been caged,
or perched with her wings clipped,
She lives like a Sto...
ROMAN PAYNE
A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
I hold it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise o...
ALFRED TENNYSON
Travel makes me feel like a bird,
Travel gives me a sense of freedom,
Travel makes me come...
ARCHANA CHAURASIA KAPOOR
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all ...
VICTOR HUGO
It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest...
LAUREN OLIVER
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is f...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES
The past, the present, the future –
The floodgates of time wait for Her footsteps
Yet S...
DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE
When sighs are hypnotized by sorrow
Happy moments you need to borrow
From a little child o...
MUNIA KHAN
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
A...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.<...
LANGSTON HUGHES
Barter

Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
SARA TEASDALE
A man must be caged before knowing his own freedom.
MILAN STOJILOVIC
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."

-Plato
JESSICA CLARE
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bar...
VERA NAZARIAN
With thee conversing I forget all time,
All seasons and their change, all please alike.
Sw...
JOHN MILTON
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
MAYA ANGELOU
Wings can only fly
as long as the bird flies
Soul blackens when you
put on vestment...
MUNIA KHAN
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his de...
HOMER
The wind sings of our nostalgia
and the starry sky ignores our dreams.
Each snow flake is...
MARGOT BICKEL
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes...
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
L...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
CHINESE PROVERB
A bird does not sing because it has an answer -- it sings because it has a song.
UNKNOWN
How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKE
What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale-- Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
Three birds sit on a wire
One bird poops
Three birds shit on a wire
ERIC MANCINI
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of th...
W.B. YEATS
Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
and the hunter home fro...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments wit...
VERA NAZARIAN
The Fever Bird

The fever bird sand out last night.
I could not sleep, try as I might...
VIKRAM SETH
After several minutes, Ed said, his voice raspy and spent, "You okay, Laur?"
Laurie, his bones ...
HEIDI CULLINAN
There are things you can’t reach. But
You can reach out to them, and all day long.

MARY OLIVER
Mary was like a caged tiger in the first days of her captivity. Keen, alert, and watchful, she liste...
MARGARET GEORGE
A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
G...
MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art,
and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
ABERJHANI
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
MARY H. WALDRIP
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive whe...
T.S. ELIOT
There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry...
JOHN WEBSTER
If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of wal...
JIM HARRISON
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself;
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook.

The suspended body; a harbinger of go...
CHIRAG TULSIANI
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
I will arise and go now,
And go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there,
Of clay ...
W.B. YEATS
How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying s...
OTTO FRANK
Now you may hear songs of kindness
From every singing bird
And from every dancing heart<...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
SEA OF LIFE

This is not the end, my friend.
Just as the ocean sings songs to infinit...
SUZY KASSEM
There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance.
Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and b...
J.R. WARD
There is a place where the sidewalk ends,
And before the street begins,
And there the gr...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the l...
MUNIA KHAN
There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"...
ERIN HANSON
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath...
VICTOR HUGO
Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This da...
MICHAEL DRAYTON
Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed<...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

More Maya Angelou

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to li...
MAYA ANGELOU
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
MAYA ANGELOU
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper ...
MAYA ANGELOU
Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to...
MAYA ANGELOU
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some com...
MAYA ANGELOU
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
MAYA ANGELOU
Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beau...
MAYA ANGELOU
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it ove...
MAYA ANGELOU
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church j...
MAYA ANGELOU
I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when...
MAYA ANGELOU
I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
MAYA ANGELOU
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their h...
MAYA ANGELOU
I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
MAYA ANGELOU
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
MAYA ANGELOU
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'...
MAYA ANGELOU
I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
MAYA ANGELOU
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human bein...
MAYA ANGELOU
I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only a...
MAYA ANGELOU
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been livi...
MAYA ANGELOU
I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And ...
MAYA ANGELOU
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of '...
MAYA ANGELOU
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
MAYA ANGELOU
All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible t...
MAYA ANGELOU
I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
MAYA ANGELOU
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b...
MAYA ANGELOU
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to Californ...
MAYA ANGELOU
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
MAYA ANGELOU
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become u...
MAYA ANGELOU
One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can...
MAYA ANGELOU
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't w...
MAYA ANGELOU
I got my own back.
MAYA ANGELOU
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will a...
MAYA ANGELOU
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.'...
MAYA ANGELOU
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
MAYA ANGELOU
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
MAYA ANGELOU
Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. Y...
MAYA ANGELOU
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, ac...
MAYA ANGELOU
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a...
MAYA ANGELOU
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
MAYA ANGELOU
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You hav...
MAYA ANGELOU
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you...
MAYA ANGELOU
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
MAYA ANGELOU
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry,...
MAYA ANGELOU
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...
MAYA ANGELOU
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!'...
MAYA ANGELOU
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and su...
MAYA ANGELOU
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a ...
MAYA ANGELOU
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
MAYA ANGELOU
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin...
MAYA ANGELOU
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone ...
MAYA ANGELOU
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I d...
MAYA ANGELOU
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can ...
MAYA ANGELOU
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you w...
MAYA ANGELOU
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to ...
MAYA ANGELOU
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else...
MAYA ANGELOU
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
MAYA ANGELOU
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
MAYA ANGELOU
Nothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOU
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
MAYA ANGELOU
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
MAYA ANGELOU
I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
MAYA ANGELOU
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth...
MAYA ANGELOU
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacr...
MAYA ANGELOU
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any...
MAYA ANGELOU
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
MAYA ANGELOU
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very...
MAYA ANGELOU
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't k...
MAYA ANGELOU
Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its disple...
MAYA ANGELOU
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying t...
MAYA ANGELOU
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOU
We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just ...
MAYA ANGELOU
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
MAYA ANGELOU
When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
MAYA ANGELOU
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
MAYA ANGELOU
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
MAYA ANGELOU
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change ...
MAYA ANGELOU
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achie...
MAYA ANGELOU
The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
MAYA ANGELOU
Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer t...
MAYA ANGELOU
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquo...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
MAYA ANGELOU
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
MAYA ANGELOU
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will...
MAYA ANGELOU
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
MAYA ANGELOU
When Great Trees Fall

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
li...
MAYA ANGELOU
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...
MAYA ANGELOU
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
MAYA ANGELOU
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African sa...
MAYA ANGELOU
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
MAYA ANGELOU
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...
MAYA ANGELOU
A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
MAYA ANGELOU
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go...
MAYA ANGELOU
When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU
We need much less than we think we need.
MAYA ANGELOU
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
MAYA ANGELOU
What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise...
MAYA ANGELOU
If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act o...
MAYA ANGELOU
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...
MAYA ANGELOU
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
MAYA ANGELOU
Life loves the liver of it.
MAYA ANGELOU
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
MAYA ANGELOU
I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
MAYA ANGELOU
...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
MAYA ANGELOU
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, ...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
MAYA ANGELOU
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over whi...
MAYA ANGELOU
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down,...
MAYA ANGELOU
I believe that every person is born with talent.
MAYA ANGELOU
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's gre...
MAYA ANGELOU
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
MAYA ANGELOU
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't per...
MAYA ANGELOU
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the be...
MAYA ANGELOU
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind o...
MAYA ANGELOU
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
MAYA ANGELOU
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and ...
MAYA ANGELOU
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don
MAYA ANGELOU
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I al...
MAYA ANGELOU
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes...
MAYA ANGELOU
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistanc...
MAYA ANGELOU
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but...
MAYA ANGELOU
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have th...
MAYA ANGELOU
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. ...
MAYA ANGELOU
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if t...
MAYA ANGELOU
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
MAYA ANGELOU
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
MAYA ANGELOU
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complai...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
MAYA ANGELOU
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be...
MAYA ANGELOU
I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and...
MAYA ANGELOU
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the thr...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain...
MAYA ANGELOU
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them sibling...
MAYA ANGELOU
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more bl...
MAYA ANGELOU
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoe...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go ...
MAYA ANGELOU
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
MAYA ANGELOU
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
MAYA ANGELOU
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, p...
MAYA ANGELOU
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be ...
MAYA ANGELOU
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, w...
MAYA ANGELOU
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into ...
MAYA ANGELOU
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
MAYA ANGELOU
If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts
MAYA ANGELOU
A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe
MAYA ANGELOU
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
MAYA ANGELOU
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday ev...
MAYA ANGELOU
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know...
MAYA ANGELOU
I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even ...
MAYA ANGELOU
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that...
MAYA ANGELOU
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person...
MAYA ANGELOU
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
MAYA ANGELOU
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
MAYA ANGELOU
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
MAYA ANGELOU
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are...
MAYA ANGELOU
I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and bel...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
MAYA ANGELOU
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...
MAYA ANGELOU
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
MAYA ANGELOU
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
MAYA ANGELOU
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
MAYA ANGELOU
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOU
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
MAYA ANGELOU
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU
I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU
I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU
All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU
I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU
Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
MAYA ANGELOU