“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
Hope
“Life loves the liver of it.”
LifeAll 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“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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Music“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”
Life“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Great“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”
Technology“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“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”
Life“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“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“All great achievements require time.”
Great“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
Life“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“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Work“My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.”
Great“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“Life loves the liver of it.”
Life“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
Home“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”
Love