Maya Angelou quotes

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

Style is as unique and nontransferable and perfectly personal as a fingerprint.

You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

A day away acts as a spring tonic. It can dispel rancor, transform indecision, and renew the spirit.

Life seems to love the liver of it.

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

Spirit is an invisible force made visible to all life.

I have lived in this body all my life and know it much better than any fashion designer.

The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.

I looked up the road I was going and back the way I come, and since I wasn’t satisfied, I decided to step off the road and cut me a new path.

Good manners and tolerance, which are the highest manifestation of style, can often transform disaster into good fortune.

Living life as art requires a readiness to forgive.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

It is in the search itself that one finds the ecstasy.

I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things, I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything.

For what could stand against me with God, since one person, any person with God, constitutes the majority?

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.