Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

— Maya Angelou

Few, if any, survive their teens.

— Maya Angelou

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

— Maya Angelou

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killers, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

— Maya Angelou

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

— Maya Angelou

Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, poor in a society where wealth is adored and sought after at all costs, female in an environment where only large ships and some engines are described favorably by using the female pronoun-how did I get to be Maya Angelou?

— Maya Angelou

Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.

— Maya Angelou

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

— Maya Angelou

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

— Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

— Maya Angelou