Quotes

“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” Maya Angelou

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” Maya Angelou

“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.” Maya Angelou

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” 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.” Maya Angelou

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” Maya Angelou

“All great achievements require time.” Maya Angelou

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” 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.” 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.” 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. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” Maya Angelou

“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” 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.” Maya Angelou

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” Maya Angelou

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” Maya Angelou

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.” Maya Angelou

“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.” 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.” Maya Angelou

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.” 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.” Maya Angelou

“The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” Maya Angelou

“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.” Maya Angelou

“Life loves the liver of it.” Maya Angelou

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” Maya Angelou

“I believe that every person is born with talent.” Maya Angelou

“Achievement brings its own anticlimax.” Maya Angelou

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.” 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.” Maya Angelou

“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.” Maya Angelou

“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.” Maya Angelou