Maya Angelou quotes

My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.

God is love. Just worry about whether you're being a good girl, then He will love you.

Knowing Momma, I knew that I never knew Momma.

Bailey was the greatest person in my world.

I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware.

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

At eleven years old, death is more unreal than frightening.

Sympathy is next to shit in the dictionary, and I can't even read.

Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being “called out of his name.”

And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.

But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

I was your sister.

May I take it again?

Now all I had to do was learn to cook.

My time had come.

I got up and followed him without a first thought.

Throughout the years I have lived in Paris, Cairo, West Africa, and all over the United States.

I believe that one can never leave home.

I had never been called beautiful and no one in my memory had ever called me daughter.

The birth of my son caused me to develop enough courage to invent my life.

There is no reason to ruin three lives; our family is going to have a wonderful baby.