Maya Angelou In Quotations

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

There is no place where God is not.

I'm young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.