“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
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
GreatAll Quotes by Maya Angelou
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
Anger“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
Hope“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Great“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
Love“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
Home“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
Beauty“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Time“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Work“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Attitude“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
Courage“All great achievements require time.”
Great“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
Truth“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.”
Love“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“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”
Technology“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”
Love“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“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
Men“Life loves the liver of it.”
Life