"I don't trust any revolution where love..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“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 have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth”

“You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.”

“Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.”

“The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.”

“Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”

“If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.”

“Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.”

“If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.”