Quotes by Maya Angelou

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

"If you don't like something, change it.  If you can't change it, change your attitude.  Don't complain."  Maya Angelou, American Writer (1928-).

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!

"Let us live so well we will not spend useless years in timidity and inertness. Let us dedicate ourselves to the liberation of the human mind and spirit ~ beginning with our own."

I long, as does every human being,
to be at home wherever I find myself.

How important it is for us to recognize
& celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

"Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it"

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

"The night has been long,
The wound has been deep,
The pit has been dark,
And the walls have been steep."

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