Maya Angelou

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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.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

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.

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.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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.

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 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.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

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.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

All great achievements require time.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

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.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

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.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Life loves the liver of it.