"I wasn't a pretty girl. I was..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
More by Maya Angelou
“Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.”
“Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.”
“I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.”
More on Self Perception
“My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't afford to lose 20 or 30 pounds?" He said, "Well, a person in your category." I said, "What is that category, doctor?" He said, "Well, you're what I call upwardly middle aged." And I said, "I forgive you for everything."”
“Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.”
“As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'”
More on Appearance
“I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.”
“O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?”
“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”