"Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Maya Angelou quotes (page 43 of 51)
1K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses."
Read quote
3 likes
"Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it."
Read quote
3 likes
"Inscribed on the temple of Apollo"
Read quote
3 likes
"Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow."
Read quote
3 likes
"I know something better is on the road for me."
Read quote
3 likes
"What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody."
Read quote
3 likes
"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
Read quote
3 likes
"I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know."
Read quote
3 likes
"I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English."
Read quote
3 likes
"One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping."
Read quote
3 likes
"I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles."
Read quote
3 likes
"The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes."
Read quote
3 likes
"Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone."
Read quote
3 likes
"Out of the huts of history's shame I rise."
Read quote
3 likes
"I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!"
Read quote
3 likes
"When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness."
Read quote
3 likes
"I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years."
Read quote
3 likes
"You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down."
Read quote
3 likes