Maya Angelou

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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 out and kick ass.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Sir, I have no objection to a man’s drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

That man is idle who can do something better.