"In so many ways, segregation shaped me,..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.”

“I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.”

“It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.”

“Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish”

“Fate of empires depends on the education of youth”

“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...”

“You are the light of the world. You are theconsciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that'sfreedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness. And it'shappening right here.”

“Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.”

“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”