Maya Angelou

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

age


Maya Angelou

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

love


Maya Angelou

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.

alone


Maya Angelou

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

anger


Maya Angelou

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

attitude


Maya Angelou

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

change


Maya Angelou

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

change


Maya Angelou

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


Maya Angelou

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


Maya Angelou

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

courage


Maya Angelou

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


Maya Angelou

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.

education


Maya Angelou

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

future


Maya Angelou

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.

god


Maya Angelou

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


Maya Angelou

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

great


Maya Angelou

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.

great


Maya Angelou

All great achievements require time.

great


Maya Angelou

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


Maya Angelou

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

history


Maya Angelou

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

home


Maya Angelou

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

home


Maya Angelou

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.

hope


Maya Angelou

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

hope


Maya Angelou

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.

learning


Maya Angelou

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.

learning


Maya Angelou

Life loves the liver of it.

life


Maya Angelou

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.

life


Maya Angelou

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


Maya Angelou

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

life


Maya Angelou

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

life


Maya Angelou

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

life


Maya Angelou

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.

love


Maya Angelou

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

love


Maya Angelou

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

love


Maya Angelou

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

love


Maya Angelou

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

love


Maya Angelou

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.

love


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