Quotes from Maya Angelou

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome."

We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.