"I would like to be known as..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.”

“Tell the truth and not the facts.”

“In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.”

“I'm a geek.”

“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”

“What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?”

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”

“Being a woman is hard work.”

“I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.”