“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.” 

—Maya Angelou, writer and civil rights activist. 

“When you know better you do better.”

 – – – Maya Angelou. 

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

—Maya Angelou. 

“Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.” 

— Maya Angelou. 

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

—Maya Angelou. 

“Words are things. Words get in your walls, into your rugs, and finally into you. You must be careful about the words you use.”

—Maya Angelou. 

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”

—Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014).

“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, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014) .

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

—Maya Angelou.

“There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”

—Maya Angelou.

“You may shoot me with your words, / You may cut me with your eyes, / You may kill me with your hatefulness, / But still, like air, I’ll rise.” 

—Maya Angelou, poet (1928-2014). 

​”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

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
~Maya Angelou.

Maya Angelou at the Discovery 2000 conference. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ”
—Maya Angelou.

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“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

-Maya Angelou.

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‎“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
— Maya Angelou.

Maya Angelou at the Discovery 2000 conference. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)