Maya Angelou

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

If someone tells you who they are, believe them.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

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.

The needs of society determine its ethics.

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.
I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

I know why the caged bird sings.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

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.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.