Quotes by Maya Angelou


I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

• Maya Angelou


There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it

• Maya Angelou


Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater

• Maya Angelou


If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded

• Maya Angelou


"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song"

• Maya Angelou



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