Quotes by Maya Angelou

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

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

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Nothing will work unless you do.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.