“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Great
“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.”
LearningAll Quotes by Maya Angelou
“Life loves the liver of it.”
Life“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Music“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“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Attitude“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
Future“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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
Courage“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“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
Hope“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“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
Love“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
Travel“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.”
Home“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“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“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”
Life“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