Maya Angelou Adults Quotations

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.