Quotes by Maya Angelou

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

All great achievements require time.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.