Maya Angelou

Submitted by si87uk on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 04:59
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  1. "Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it."
  2. "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns all clean."
  3. "How important it is for us to recognise and celebrate out heroes and she-roes!"
  4. "I have found, among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of duty."
  5. "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
  6. "If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street grinning, "Good morning" to total strangers."
  7. "Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
  8. "Living is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong."
  9. "Lyrical poetry is out for the time being, and something called rap or hip-hop is in. It is still poetry, and we can't live without it. We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of - to explain the pains and glory of our existence."
  10. "Nothing will work unless you do."
  11. "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practise any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
  12. "Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
  13. "Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it."
  14. "There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."
  15. "There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth."
  16. "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."
  17. "Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning."