All great achievements require time.

- Maya Angelou

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

- Maya Angelou

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

- Maya Angelou

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

- Maya Angelou

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , Maya Angelou

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

- Maya Angelou

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

- Maya Angelou

I believe that every person is born with talent.

- Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

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

- Maya Angelou

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

- Maya Angelou

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

- Maya Angelou

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

- Maya Angelou

Nothing will work unless you do.

- Maya Angelou

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

- Maya Angelou

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

- Maya Angelou