Maya Angelou Quotes

You did in your twenties what you knew how to do, and when you knew better you did better. And you should not be judged for the person that you were, but for the person that you're trying to be and the woman that you are now.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. ... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

How important it is to recognise and consider our heroes and she-roes.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

We delight in the beauty of butterfly, rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty*

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

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

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song

It is possible and imperative that we discover
A brave and startling truth.

When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time. Not the 29th time!