|

|

Advertisements

Maya Angelou Quotes

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken Picture Quote #1

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition Picture Quote #1

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels Picture Quote #1

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists Picture Quote #1

Petulant priests, greedy centurions, and one million incensed gestures stand between your love and me Picture Quote #1

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them Picture Quote #1

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at Picture Quote #1

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends Picture Quote #1

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice Picture Quote #1

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean Picture Quote #1

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again Picture Quote #1

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man Picture Quote #1

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die Picture Quote #1

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth Picture Quote #1

This conference? of, for and about women? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else Picture Quote #1

1 - 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 - 25

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken (Maya Angelou Quotes) I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition (Maya Angelou Quotes) I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels (Maya Angelou Quotes) I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists (Maya Angelou Quotes) Petulant priests, greedy centurions, and one million incensed gestures stand between your love and me (Maya Angelou Quotes) To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power (Maya Angelou Quotes) You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them (Maya Angelou Quotes) I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at (Maya Angelou Quotes) Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness (Maya Angelou Quotes) 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 Quotes) Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends (Maya Angelou Quotes) Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway (Maya Angelou Quotes) 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 (Maya Angelou Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean (Maya Angelou Quotes) History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again (Maya Angelou Quotes) It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength (Maya Angelou Quotes) Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope (Maya Angelou Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Maya Angelou Quotes) 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 (Maya Angelou Quotes) 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 (Maya Angelou Quotes) The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned (Maya Angelou Quotes) 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 (Maya Angelou Quotes) 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 (Maya Angelou Quotes) While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man (Maya Angelou Quotes) If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die (Maya Angelou Quotes) There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth (Maya Angelou Quotes) This conference? of, for and about women? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else (Maya Angelou Quotes)

1 - 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 - 25