More quotes by Maya Angelou

"Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life."
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
"Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again."
"I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."
"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."