Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
馬婭·安杰盧（1928年－2014年），又譯瑪雅·安吉洛，是一位美國詩人，作家，和民權運動份子。
1862. How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times. 中文 / Chinese：
身為美國人是多麼的奇妙。我們認識了最好和最壞的時代。
1863. Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication. 中文 / Chinese：
寫作和烹飪只不過是兩種不同溝通的方法。
1864. Effective action is always unjust. 中文 / Chinese：
有效的行動通常是不公道的。
1865. I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard. 中文 / Chinese：
我知道當我祈禱時，奇妙的事情發生了。不止是對我祈禱的對象，而且奇妙的事情發生在我身上。我對得到聆聽感到感恩。
1866. While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. 中文 / Chinese：
當我懂得自己是上帝的創作，我亦有有責任去領悟和記住每一個人和物亦是上帝的創作。
1867. The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are. 中文 / Chinese：
你知道你的歷史越多，你會越解放。
1868. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. 中文 / Chinese：
歷史，儘管它是揪心的痛，亦不能抹掉，但假如勇敢地面對，就不需要重演。
1774. The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. 中文 / Chinese：
希望 — 在美國黑人心裡活著的希望，是這麼的巨大，它有時壓垮了我。
1775. 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. 中文 / Chinese：
任何書本對孩子養成一個閱讀習慣，令閱讀成為一個深而持續的需要，對他來說是好的。
1776. While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. 中文 / Chinese：
當世界正在改進科技時，加納改善人對人的人性。
1777. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. 中文 / Chinese：
這正是時候 — 父母應該預早教導年青人，在差異裡有著美麗和力量。
1778. When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.' 中文 / Chinese：
當一個人在艱苦時，而她遇到某人在苦難中活下來，然後她可以說：' 我的情況也不這麼壞。她可以渡過，我也可以。’
1779. I think music is one of the hero / sheroes of the African-American existence. 中文 / Chinese：
我想音樂是非洲裔美國人的英雄／英雌。
1697. A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. 中文 / Chinese：
憤世嫉俗的年青人是最傷心見到的情景，因為他從什麼也不知道改變到什麼也不相信。
1698. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. 中文 / Chinese：
文字比紙上的字更有意思。它需要人聲灌入更深的意義。
1699. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. 中文 / Chinese：
如果幸運的話，一個單獨的幻想可以完全地改變百萬個現實。
1700. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! 中文 / Chinese：
表揚和慶祝我們的英雄英雌是多麼的重要。
1701. Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life. 中文 / Chinese：
用膳是這麼親密的。它很感官性。當你邀請人坐在你的餐桌上和你為他烹調，你是邀請一個人進入你的生活。
1702. During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. 中文 / Chinese：
在壞的情況下，你不可以決定減少人類的遺傳。你有你自己的人性，不可容許任何事情減少它。我們有責任懂得我們是全球的公民。災難提醒我們是世界的公民，無論我們喜歡與否。
1619. All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. 中文 / Chinese：
所有偉大的藝術家從同一資源繪畫：人心，它告訴我們相同比不相同多。
1620. The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. 中文 / Chinese：
這些詩集是為你們每一個而寫 - 黑種人，白種人，西裔人，男人，女人，同性戀者，異性戀者。
1621. I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings. 中文 / Chinese：
我拒絕准許任何人為差別分開我和其他人類。
1622. When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter. 中文 / Chinese：
當人類忽略它軟弱的成員，當家庭忽略它最軟弱的一個那是第一步鼓吹自殺的行動。我看見國家內的城市如西維珍尼亞，維珍尼亞，肯塔基和其他大城市，都有這現象。
1623. I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever. 中文 / Chinese：
我從來沒感覺我需要把別人的無知放在我的周圍。就像那些種族主義者用”黑人”來形容我和我們，或是那些蠢人想貶低其他他們不漂亮或貧窮或不聰明。
1577. Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear. 中文 / Chinese：
直到黑人與白人視對方為兄弟姊妹，我們不會得到平等。這是很清楚的。
1578. It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. 中文 / Chinese：
沒有白人參與，爭取公民權利和平等權利是不可能的。因為平等權利，公平行動，正義都像空氣：我們都擁有，或我們都不擁有。這是事實。
1579. It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers. 中文 / Chinese：
記得在危機中，自然危機，人類會忘記他們的無知，偏見，歧視。有一段短時間，鄰居幫助鄰居和陌生人幫助陌生人。
1580. We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike. 中文 / Chinese：
我們可以學習看對方和自己然後發現人類是相似多過不相似。
1581. 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. 中文 / Chinese：
據我所知，白種女人從不孤單，除了在書本內。白種男人愛慕他們，非裔男人渴望他們和非裔女人為他們工作。
1544. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. 中文 / Chinese：
愛不會認別障礙。它跳過欄杆，跨過柵欄，穿過牆壁，充滿希望地到達目的地。
1545. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. 中文 / Chinese：
愛一個人解放了愛與被愛的人。而那種愛是用時間培養。
1546. You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.' 中文 / Chinese：
沒有愛你不能寬恕。而我不是指感情上。我不是指痴情。我是指有勇氣地站起來說”我寬恕。到此為止。”
1547. The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society. 中文 / Chinese：
家庭的愛，一人的愛可以治癒。它治癒社會留下的疤痕。一個大規模的，有強大勢力的社會。
1548. If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. 中文 / Chinese：
如果我們對每一個人失去愛情和自尊，這就是我們最後如何死亡。
1549. Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else. 中文 / Chinese：
資訊幫你理解你不是單獨。有人在密西西比和有人在東京哭，有些在渴望和迷失，有一些向來快樂。資料庫幫助你看見不止你不是單獨，但也讓你看見你跟每一個人沒有差別。
1427. Home is a refuge, not only from the world but a refuge from my worries, my terrible concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up. 中文 / Chinese：
家是一個避難所，使我避開世界，我的擔心和嚇人的擔憂。我喜歡周圍美麗的事物。我喜歡美麗因為它使我的眼睛高興和靈魂鼓舞。
1428. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. 中文 / Chinese：
痛苦像癌症，它蠶食宿主。但忿怒像火焰，它燃燒怠盡。
1429. I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all. 中文 / Chinese：
我肯定知道愛拯救了我和它存在是要拯救我們。
1430. I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate. 中文 / Chinese：
我可以愛上一名相撲手，只要他能說故事和令我笑。明顯地，假如他是非裔美國人，住在旁邊和跟我去同一教堂會更容易。因為這樣我不用翻譯。
1431. The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. 中文 / Chinese：
失去初戀是那麼的痛苦而且近似荒唐。
1432. Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. 中文 / Chinese：
愛就像病毒。它能在任何時間發生在任何人身上。
1327. Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but it has not solved one yet. 中文 / Chinese：
仇恨。它在這世界引起許多問題但它未有解決倒一個。
1328. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. 中文 / Chinese：
音樂是我的避難所。我可以爬進音符中間捲成孤單的符號。
1329. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done, to try and love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. 中文 / Chinese：
我最大的希望是笑和哭一樣多；完成工作，嘗試愛人和有勇氣接受別人愛回來。
1330. Ask for what you want, and be prepared to get it. 中文 / Chinese：
問自己想要什麼，然後準備獲得。
1331. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. 中文 / Chinese：
愛惜生活和貪婪生活只差一線之微。
1332. Having courage does not mean we are unafraid. 中文 / Chinese：
有勇氣不代表不害怕。
1333. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. 中文 / Chinese：
我愛看年輕女孩出去抓住世界的衣領。人生苦難多。你一定要出去吐氣揚眉。
1334. There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. 中文 / Chinese：
世界充滿著真相與事實的差異。事實可以混淆真相。
1165. I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change. 中文 / Chinese：
我經常對人們不按照潛力做到而感到失望。我知道很多人看不起自己，因而看別人也是一樣。但這些，都可以改變。
1166. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. 中文 / Chinese：
假如你心中想關懷某人，你將會成功。
1167. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. 中文 / Chinese：
愛認不出障礙。它跳過障礙，跳越籬笆，穿插牆壁，然後滿懷希望抵達目的地。
1168. If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. 中文 / Chinese：
假如你經常嘗試使個正常人，你永遠不知道你有多了不起。
1169. If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. 中文 / Chinese：
如果你只有一個笑容，把它給予你愛的人。
1170. My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. 中文 / Chinese：
我的願望是你繼續下去。繼續做你自己，用你仁慈的行為去震驚這個自私的世界。繼續准許幽默為你溫柔的心減輕負擔。
744. Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. 中文 / Chinese：
儘量做得好直至你知道較好的。然後當你知道較好後，再做做得更好。
745. If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity. 中文 / Chinese：
如果你是人類，你可以嘗試做其他人做過的事。我們對天才所知並不多過了解電力。
746. Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. 中文 / Chinese：
沒有任何事物可以令發自內裡的光轉暗。
747. We are only as blind as we want to be. 中文 / Chinese：
我們自己想盲目有多深就會多深。
748. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it. 中文 / Chinese：
成功是喜歡自己，喜歡自己在做的和怎樣去做。
749. All great achievements require time. 中文 / Chinese：
所有偉大的成就都需要時間。
750. The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible. 中文 / Chinese：
伸延到星星是心懷奢望的。伸延到內心是明智和做得到的。
751. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay. 中文 / Chinese：
希望和恐懼不能同一時間佔用同一空間。招待一個留下。
305. One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. 中文 / Chinese：
勇氣不一定與生俱來，但潛力總是有。沒有勇氣，我們不能用堅定地鍛練任何長處。我們不能做到仁慈，真誠，慈悲，寬厚，或誠實。
306. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. 中文 / Chinese：
沒有更大的苦惱比得起上你心裡未曾洩漏的故事。
307. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. 中文 / Chinese：
如你不喜歡某事，改變它。如你不能改變，改變你的態度。不要投訴。
308. If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. 中文 / Chinese：
如果你嘗試做個正常人，你永遠不會知道你有多麼了不起。
309. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. 中文 / Chinese：
文字比寫在紙張的字有更深含意。它需要人類聲音去激發出深層意思。
310. Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. 中文 / Chinese：
無論你要做什麼，如果要做得出色，你要喜愛它和準備為它作出犧牲。
311. I believe that every person is born with talent. 中文 / Chinese：
我相信每人天生有材。
115. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. 中文 / Chinese：
嘗試在別人的雲裹做一條彩虹。
116. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. 中文 / Chinese：
當有人出示他們是怎樣的人，第一次要相信他。
117. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. 中文 / Chinese：
我們可能被擊敗很多次，但我們一定不能被擊倒。
118. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. 中文 / Chinese：
我生命的使命不只是生存，還要成長；要有熱情，憐憫，幽默，作風地成長。
119. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
中文 / Chinese： 我得知人會忘記你說過什麼，人會忘記你做過什麼，但人永遠不會忘記你給他的感受。
120. A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. 中文 / Chinese：
一個聰明的女人不想做任何人的敵人；一個聰明的女人拒絕做任何人的受害者。
121. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. 中文 / Chinese：
這是其中一樣任何人都可以給自己的禮物，原諒。原諒所有人。
