Maya Angelou Quotes

The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

We live in a society where there is no law in making money in the promulgation of ignorance or, in some cases, stupidity. There are a lot of things you can say never happened. You can go as relatively quasi-harmless as saying no one went to the moon. But you also can say that the Holocaust never happened.

In the never-ending battle you have all officially joined as of today, the difference is in how truly you believe, in how vociferously you promote, in how tightly you hold onto the truth that is self-evident: that of course we are all created equally yet differently, and of course we are all in this together.

Truth is the light
So you never give up the fight.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

It is possible and imperative that we discover
A brave and startling truth.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: Here you see what it is to be a human being; but he adds: Take care, for I am also God — blessed is he who takes no offense at me.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.

But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!

There's no escaping it-the world is full of lies. It is safest always to accept what one hears as if it were utterly commonplace and devoid of interest.

...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ...

Head’s contention is that socially ascribed identities arefalse, misleading and degrading to the true inner person