"Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies,..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“The future is plump with promise.”

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

“Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”

“Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are”

“I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.”

“If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.”

“As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.”

“I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.”

“Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.”