“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Time
“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“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“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“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“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
Truth“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“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“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
Home“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Attitude“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 we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
Love“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
Courage“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
Hope“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Love“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“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”
Technology“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
Men“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
Life