Maya Angelou

“They may not remember what you said. They may not remember what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel.”

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

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

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

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

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”

“All great achievements require time.”

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

“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it”

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Life loves the liver of it.”

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

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

“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.”

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.”

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