Quotes about Connection
Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.
— Maya Angelou
A Conceit Give me your hand Make room for me to lead and follow you beyond this rage of poetry. Let others have the privacy of touching words and love of loss of love. For me Give me your hand.
— Maya Angelou
People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel
— Maya Angelou
People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ From intro to movie: Spinning Into Butter
— Maya Angelou
It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow.
— Maya Angelou
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
— Maya Angelou
I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? Mother
— Maya Angelou
To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
— Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
— Maya Angelou
You have no idea what your legacy will be because your legacy is every life you touch.
— Maya Angelou
Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.
— Maya Angelou
Glasses clinked and voices rubbed each other.
— Maya Angelou