Quotes by Maya Angelou

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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 place.

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.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Nothing will work unless you do.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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