Maya-angelou Quotes

When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall g...

Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same t...

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man ...

It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already tra...

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young ...

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only b...

Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, po...