Angelou

Famous quotes containing the word angelou:

    At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
    —Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

    During those years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.... it was Shakespeare who said, “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes.” It was a state of mind with which I found myself most familiar. I pacified myself about his whiteness by saying that after all he had been dead so long it couldn’t matter to anyone any more.
    —Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

    There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
    —Maya Angelou (b. 1928)