"Listen to some good poetry. You see?..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.”

“In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'”

“Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.”

“I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.”

“To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour”

“Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.”

“I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised.”

“Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.”

“People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!”