"If you have, give. If you learn,..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.”

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

“If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.”

“Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet”

“You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.”

“The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.”

“In order to have friends, you must first be one.”

“Give back to the world at least what you've received.”

“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”