Maya Angelou

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.

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

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.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Letting go is not giving up.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

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.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only – not from its privileged classes.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.