1. “Nothing will work unless you do.”
2. “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
3. “Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
4. “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
5. “The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
6. “The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
7. “There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
8. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
9. “There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
10. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

Still I Rise (poem)

Woman Work (poem)

Phenomenal Woman (Poem)

Maya Angelou (The Poet)

11 Things I’ve Learned (Maya Angelou)