Quotes from Maya Angelou

It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

I keep on dying, Because I love to live

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.