"I got my own back...." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.”

“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.”

“You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like this place, I think I'll stay here." Which is why people go into one house and say, "I want to take my shoes off." At another house, no matter how beautiful it is, they might say, "Hmm, I can't stay."”

“There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.”

“A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.”

“We have to pilot our own dreams - we cannot entrust them to anyone else.”

“I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience.”

“Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.”

“My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.”