"If you were the President of the..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

“Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.”

“I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.”

“I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”

“My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.”

“I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.”

“For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

“How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!”

“We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.”