I Shall Not Be Moved Quotes

“I'm young as morning
and fresh as dew.
Everybody loves me
and so do you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved

“A certain person wondered why
a big strong girl like me
wouldn't keep a job
which paid a normal salary.
I took my time to lead her
and to read her every page.
Even minimal people
can't survive on minimal wage.

A certain person wondered why
I wait all week for you.
I didn't have the words
to describe just what you do.
I said you had the motion
of the ocean in your walk,
and when you solve my riddles
you don't even have to talk.”
― Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved

“When old folks laugh,
they consider the promise
of dear painless death, and generously
forgive life for happening
to them.”
― Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved

“The man who is a bigot,
is the worst thing God has got,
except his match, his woman,
who really is Ms. Begot.”
― Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved

“Lovers think quite different thoughts
while lying side by side.”
― Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved

“And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”
― Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved

“Midwives and winding sheets
know birthing is hard
and dying is mean
and living’s a trial in between.

Why do we journey, muttering
like rumors among the stars?
Is a dimension lost?
Is it love?”
― Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved