A certain person wondered why big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead herald to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.

— Maya Angelou

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

— Maya Angelou

All great achievements require time.

— Maya Angelou

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

— Maya Angelou

All my ways of being are musical and mysterious. Yet I embrace you openly. Ripe with expectancy.

— Maya Angelou

Alone"Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a somewhere water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone came up with one thing And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone. There are some millionaires With money they can’t use Their wives run round like banshees Their children sing the blues They’ve got expensive doctors To cure their hearts of stone. But nobody No, nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone. Now if you listen closely’ll tell you what I snowstorm clouds are gathering The wind is gonna blow The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, ‘Cause nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

— Maya Angelou

And my seven-year-old world Humpty Dumpties, never to be put back together again.

— Maya Angelou

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

— Maya Angelou

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

— Maya Angelou

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

— Maya Angelou