"I am always talking about the human..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.”

“For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.”

“I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.”

“But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.”

“We live ruins amid ruins.”

“What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?”

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”

“One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.”

“The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.”