"I have need of a friend. There..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.”

“You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'”

“It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.”

“Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.”

“If nobody loved, the sun would go out.”

“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.”

“If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.”

“I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.”

“Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.”