Top 258 Quotes by Maya Angelou

I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

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.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

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.