Maya Angelou Books Quotes

#1. If you stop painting policemen in order to paint windmills, criticism remains so overpoweringly policeman-conscious that even a windmill is seen as something with arms out, obviously directing the traffic.

A.A. Milne

#2. If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Sister Souljah

#3. I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends? The

Maya Angelou

#4. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

#5. You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.

Bill Buford

#6. We are all improved by the glow of memory.

Neil Gaiman

#7. If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point?

Bronagh Gallagher

#8. Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, 'Uh oh, they're going to find out now. I've run a game on everybody and they're going to find me out.

Maya Angelou

#9. For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Maya Angelou

#10. South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.

Mamphela Ramphele

#11. Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

Gary D. Schmidt

#12. I was too little to think a miracle could be anything but good.

Brenna Yovanoff

#13. What are you doing?"
" making love to you. roll over katie."
" but we ... you're ... "
" sure am."
" we can't.."
"it's just one night, right?
"yes."
"night's not over

Julie Garwood

#14. As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Maya Angelou

#15. The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.

Eric Ludy

#16. Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

Bill Hicks

#17. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence.

Marty Rubin

#19. Descansado," he tells me.
"What does that mean?"
"Descansado," Rip says. "It means 'take it easy,'" he whispers, clutching the child next to him.
"Yeah?"
"It means relax.

Bret Easton Ellis