Quotes from Maya Angelou

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.

Let nothing dim the light that shines from within

In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

Whenever I began to question whether God exists, I looked up to the sky and surely there, right there, between the sun and moon, stands my grandmother, singing a long meter hymn, a song somewhere between a moan and a lullaby and I know faith is the evidence of things unseen. And all I have to do is continue trying to be a Christian.

We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.