“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.”
Alone
“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 is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Great“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
Courage“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
Truth“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”
Life“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”
Technology“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“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”
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“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.”
Courage“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
Education“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.”
Men“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.”
Learning“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“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
Home“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
Anger“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“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Attitude