Maya Angelou : (15)

" I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles. " - Maya Angelou

" It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. " - Maya Angelou

" Achievement brings its own anticlimax. " - Maya Angelou

" I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me. " - Maya Angelou

" I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly. " - Maya Angelou