April 4 Quotes

97 quotes in this collection

"Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily."

-- Maya Angelou

"Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his own liberation."

-- Maya Angelou

"I believe that every person is born with talent."

-- Maya Angelou

"When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things."

-- Maya Angelou

"The honorary duty of a human being is to love."

-- Maya Angelou

"The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry."

-- Maya Angelou

"We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom."

-- Maya Angelou

"I got my own back."

-- Maya Angelou

"Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet."

-- Maya Angelou

"I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me."

-- Maya Angelou

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."

-- Maya Angelou

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

-- Maya Angelou

"I know why the caged bird sings."

-- Maya Angelou

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

-- Maya Angelou

"No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

-- Maya Angelou

"You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it."

-- Maya Angelou

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

-- Maya Angelou

"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it."

-- Maya Angelou

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

-- Maya Angelou

"Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls."

-- Maya Angelou

"Determine to live life with flair and laughter."

-- Maya Angelou

"We are only as blind as we want to be."

-- Maya Angelou

"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."

-- Maya Angelou

"A mother's love liberates."

-- Maya Angelou
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