Quote: I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: 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. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: Life loves the liver of it. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: 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. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: I believe that every person is born with talent. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: Achievement brings its own anticlimax. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: 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. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: 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. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: 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. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! [Maya Angelou]
Quote: I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. [Maya Angelou]
Quote: I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. [Maya Angelou]