Maya Angelou quotes

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.   

 

• 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.
• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
• Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
• 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.