“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” — Maya Angelou Quote

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

“I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.”

“Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'”

“Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'”

“What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.”

“I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.”

“Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.”

“It takes a certain amount of strength of character to decide you're not satisfied with something and then change it and to change it flamboyantly and ferociously and spectacularly. That just really impressed me.”

“The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.”

“You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.”

“Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.”

“Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.”