Quotes from Maya Angelou
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
- Maya Angelou
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
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
- Maya Angelou
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
- Maya Angelou
Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.
- Maya Angelou
Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.
- Maya Angelou
Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.
- Maya Angelou
My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.
- Maya Angelou
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
- Maya Angelou
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
- Maya Angelou
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou