3 December 2020 Maya Angelou History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou 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.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou 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.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou 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.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou 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.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
