- We really are fifteen different countries and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham--both are certain they are the real American. - Maya Angelou (Marguerite Johnson), 1978
- Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God. - Maya Angelou, 1970
- I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed. - Maya Angelou, 1970
- By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell. - Maya Angelou, 1974
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