“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Attitude
“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”
TechnologyAll Quotes by 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.”
God“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.”
Respect“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”
Courage“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“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“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”
Technology“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Time“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
Change“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Great“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
Beauty“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
Home“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“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
Anger“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“All great achievements require time.”
Great“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
Men“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
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