Maya Angelou

Quotes from Maya Angelou.

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.
- Maya Angelou

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
- Maya Angelou

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
- Maya Angelou

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
- Maya Angelou

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
- Maya Angelou

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
- Maya Angelou

I believe that every person is born with talent.
- Maya Angelou

Life loves the liver of it.
- Maya Angelou

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
- Maya Angelou