angelou Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about 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.”
- Maya Angelou
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
- Maya Angelou
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
- Maya Angelou
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
- Maya Angelou
“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- Maya Angelou
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- Maya Angelou