Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. Maya Angelou bitternesscancerdispleasure Change image and share on social
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. Maya Angelou brainhearheart Change image and share on social
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading. Maya Angelou bookminepage Change image and share on social
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. Maya Angelou bravecostdare Change image and share on social
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely. Maya Angelou 19thagreebalzac share on social
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Maya Angelou differencefactobscure Change image and share on social
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Maya Angelou girlgrablapel Change image and share on social
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.' Maya Angelou africablackcape share on social
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou benefitfindgive Change image and share on social
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience. Maya Angelou acceptagobeing Change image and share on social
