Maya Angelou Quotes

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition-about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

The“b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

My life has been one great big joke,
A dance that's walked,
A song that's spoke,
I laugh so hard I almost choke,
When I think about myself.

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

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.