“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
Courage
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
HomeAll Quotes by Maya Angelou
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
Beauty“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
Truth“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.”
Truth“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
Hope“Life loves the liver of it.”
Life“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.”
Learning“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Love“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Work“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
Future“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
Home“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”
Technology“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
Anger“All great achievements require time.”
Great“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Attitude“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.”
Good“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Music“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.”
God“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
Change“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.”
Courage