Maya Angelou

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands…

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time…

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

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love…

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

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its…

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading…

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

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened…

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize…

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl…

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

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met…

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It…