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.
Maya Angelou
If one is lucky, a solitary fa…
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou
I love a Hebrew National hot d…
I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.
Maya Angelou
Its one of the greatest gifts …
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
In all my work, in the movies …
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.
Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important …
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
I like chicken a lot because c…
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
Maya Angelou
I work very hard, and I play v…
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
Maya Angelou
I am grateful to be a woman. I…
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
Maya Angelou
Whenever something went wrong …
Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
Maya Angelou