“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
Life
“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
ChangeAll Quotes by Maya Angelou
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Work“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
Love“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”
Technology“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“All great achievements require time.”
Great“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Music“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Attitude“Life loves the liver of it.”
Life“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”
Life“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
Home“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Great“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“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
Truth“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”
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“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“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”
Life“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
Hope“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.”
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