Quotations by Author



Maya 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.


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.


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


Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.


People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human being become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of respectability at a commensurate speed.