"At 50, I began to know who..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“When we know better, we do better.”

“In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.”

“Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt”

“When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound.”

“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”

“Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.”

“I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.”

“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.”

“Every picture of you is when you were younger.”