Quotes by Maya Angelou

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.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

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

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

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

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

All great achievements require time.

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

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.