Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'”

“I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.”

“I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.”

“In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”

“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.”

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

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

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

“I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.”