Quote

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

Maya Angelou

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
Author
Autobiographer
Comedian
Dancer
Essayist
Film Director
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
Believe
Things
Tangible
Machinery
Measure
Convinced
Simply
Words

More quotes by Maya Angelou

Image
We really are 15 countries, and it's 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
Image
The desire to reach hearts is wise
Maya Angelou
Image
Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.
Maya Angelou
Image
Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
Maya Angelou
Image
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou
Image
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
Maya Angelou
Image
Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.
Maya Angelou
Image
There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.
Maya Angelou
Image
Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.
Maya Angelou
Image
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
Maya Angelou
Image
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Maya Angelou
Image
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
Image
Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.
Maya Angelou
Image
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou
Image
My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.
Maya Angelou
Image
Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
Maya Angelou
Image
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
Maya Angelou
Image
The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.
Maya Angelou
Image
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.
Maya Angelou
Image
I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.
Maya Angelou