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''Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."''
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author, poet. repr. In Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989). "Maya Angelou: An Interview," (first published Oct. 1974)....
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''We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.''
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. Address, March 1990, Centenary College of Louisiana. New York Times (March 11, 1990).
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Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them,
They say they still can't see.
I s...
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise (1978).
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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 plac...
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. Quoted in New York Times (April 16, 1972).
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''If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.''
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, vol. 3, ch. 5 (1976).
Quoting her mother's advice.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications.... Each nicety becomes...
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, vol. 3, ch. 5 (1976).
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''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.''
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author, poet. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, vol. 3, ch. 1 (1976).
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Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often e...
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, vol. 3, ch. 9 (1976).
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''You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.''
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. Still I Rise, And Still I Rise (1978).
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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the sl...
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. African American poet, author, educator. "Still I Rise," in Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women, p. 9, Random ...
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