1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
Maya Angelou – [Work]
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou – [Change]
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou – [Character]
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou – [Feminism]
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder — in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
Maya Angelou – [Men and Women]
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou – [Life, Lust For]
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.
Maya Angelou – [Isolation]
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou – [Defeat]
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