Quotes from Maya Angelou

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

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

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.