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This conference — of, for and about women — is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.


Maya Angelou

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J.R. RIM The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rain...
MAYA ANGELOU In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;...
C. JOYBELL C. The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ...
C. JOYBELL C. (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health has a national conference every other year. This...
MAYA ANGELOU It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for...
ANNA SPENCER It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for...
ANNA GARLIN SPENCER I run like I have cirrus clouds for legs and rainbow knees. What is life, if not a marathon of love?...
JAROD KINTZ Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. We're excited anytime there's an offer of an NCAA Tournament bid at the end of the rainbow. This is ...
ROYCE CHADWICK Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives ...
JESSICA VALENTI About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as...
GIACOMO CASANOVA The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the...
C. JOYBELL C. Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal ...
KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND If they could, women would put make-up on the rainbow.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Maya Angelo...
LENNIE GOODINGS Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Women have to support each other more. Women get women. We understand each other when we are happy o...
ASHLEY GRAHAM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING That is what was special to me, ... to see them come together as a team. They worked and cheered and...
JACK NICKLAUS What other movement has ensured that young women have the rights that they have today? Feminism is r...
JESSICA VALENTI “Life is like a rainbow, You need both the sun and the rain for colors to appear through dark clou...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a...
CHANAKYA Women do cook for themselves you know. You think when we’re on our own we sob into a lonely bowl o...
SARAH MORGAN Sports became a bonding glue when the old boys' network ruled, There are lots of other networks, lik...
APRIL MASINI The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
GILBERT BAKER When it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine any more, there's a rainbow in the clouds,
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't have a loved one or know somebody who's been killed or wounded, it's really easy to go ...
ANNE ROESLER But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Women’s marches are a clever progressive divide and conquer strategy that not only turns women aga...
DAWN PERLMUTTER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night; Heave...
MRS. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. B...
SARAH RUHL No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or wh...
GERMANY KENT I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it...
BAT FOR LASHES These women are very happy and positive people, and they are incredibly generous, not only buying fo...
DAMIEN VERNET A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shephe...
OLD RHYME Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take bet...
LANDON DONOVAN I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE I'm thrilled. It's a total victory for women. Politics was trumped by science and medicine. It's a b...
ELEANOR SMEAL Women in politics, academia and the business world (in Germany) are a decade behind women in America...
CONSTANZE STELZENMUELLER Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not fou...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I am not here for women only, but also for women.
ANGELA MERKEL These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON We had sun, but we asked for a rainbow. We called the drizzle, but we got heavy rains! Now it’s go...
HESHAN UDUNUWARA They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we wan...
RACHEL NICHOLS It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women,...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN I've heard so many women say that when they had a child it saved their life. I never understood that...
JUSTIN STECKBAUER I know this is scary. You're hungry and cold and you want to give up! But you can't turn on each oth...
MARK WAID [Brawley blames poor access to health care and lower standards of care for black women.] While we ha...
OTIS BRAWLEY Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life thr...
PRENEET KAUR 'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving wome...
NAYVADIUS CASH History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She had learnt many things since the days of her first rebellion, and she knew now that this matter ...
H.G. WELLS We walk the walk and not just talk the talk. On the other side they talk about women, but when the o...
DERRICK SMITH Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE I believe in women uplifting other women. The only thing that makes our gender weaker, is the fact t...
C. JOYBELL C. I come across too much material on "how to make a man want you", "how to make a man commit", "how to...
C. JOYBELL C. For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come shining through. No matter how your hea...
CINDERELLA The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out...
BURT WARD Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. It's about women helping women and women doing things together and supporting each other.
DIANA BURCH A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
GILBERT BAKER Women are getting more physical activity, they're eating better, and the really positive benefit the...
DR. LORI MOSCA This rainbow is beautiful,but i shall snap it tomorrow,& you know what? Rainbow appears once in a wh...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics c...
CAITLIN MORAN We have found that for some women they just regard this as an excellent option, and this is what the...
GLORIA FELDT I don't ever feel I have no help. I've had rainbows in my clouds. And the thing to do, it seems to m...
MAYA ANGELOU Why can't there be an acknowledgment that, in some instances, women remove themselves from the w...
MEGYN KELLY Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody commen...
PAZ DE LA HUERTA I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safet...
CATE BLANCHETT Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT I believe that when a woman is given the chance to come to the defense of another woman, that is an ...
C. JOYBELL C. Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
NINON DE LENCLOS I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
ROBERT BRIDGES People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves A...
STEVE BUYER When the women come for their hour-long appointment, often times when they come through our front do...
DANA HARRISON We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when ...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN May God give you...For every storm a rainbow, for every tear a smile, for every care a promise and a...
IRISH BLESSINGS Factors influencing the ability to (reach) orgasm vary from woman to woman. What we do know is that ...
DR. VIRGINIA SADOCK She will always be the rainbow in my clouds.
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MAYA ANGELOU Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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MAYA ANGELOU I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
MAYA ANGELOU I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
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MAYA ANGELOU I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
MAYA ANGELOU I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human bein...
MAYA ANGELOU I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only a...
MAYA ANGELOU Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been livi...
MAYA ANGELOU I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And ...
MAYA ANGELOU I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of '...
MAYA ANGELOU All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
MAYA ANGELOU All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible t...
MAYA ANGELOU I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
MAYA ANGELOU I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b...
MAYA ANGELOU Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to Californ...
MAYA ANGELOU The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
MAYA ANGELOU Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become u...
MAYA ANGELOU One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can...
MAYA ANGELOU I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't w...
MAYA ANGELOU I got my own back.
MAYA ANGELOU If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will a...
MAYA ANGELOU I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.'...
MAYA ANGELOU Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
MAYA ANGELOU I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
MAYA ANGELOU Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. Y...
MAYA ANGELOU We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, ac...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a...
MAYA ANGELOU I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
MAYA ANGELOU During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You hav...
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you...
MAYA ANGELOU In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
MAYA ANGELOU Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry,...
MAYA ANGELOU My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...
MAYA ANGELOU If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!'...
MAYA ANGELOU When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and su...
MAYA ANGELOU Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a ...
MAYA ANGELOU Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
MAYA ANGELOU Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin...
MAYA ANGELOU While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone ...
MAYA ANGELOU The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I d...
MAYA ANGELOU Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can ...
MAYA ANGELOU Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you w...
MAYA ANGELOU My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to ...
MAYA ANGELOU You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else...
MAYA ANGELOU Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
MAYA ANGELOU The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
MAYA ANGELOU Nothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOU Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
MAYA ANGELOU You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
MAYA ANGELOU I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
MAYA ANGELOU If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth...
MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacr...
MAYA ANGELOU Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any...
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
MAYA ANGELOU Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very...
MAYA ANGELOU I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't k...
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its disple...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying t...
MAYA ANGELOU Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOU We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just ...
MAYA ANGELOU The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
MAYA ANGELOU When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
MAYA ANGELOU Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
MAYA ANGELOU Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
MAYA ANGELOU What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change ...
MAYA ANGELOU We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achie...
MAYA ANGELOU The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
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MAYA ANGELOU I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
MAYA ANGELOU When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will...
MAYA ANGELOU I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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rocks on distant hills shudder,
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MAYA ANGELOU Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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MAYA ANGELOU Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
MAYA ANGELOU Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...
MAYA ANGELOU A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
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MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU We need much less than we think we need.
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MAYA ANGELOU You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves the liver of it.
MAYA ANGELOU A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
MAYA ANGELOU I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
MAYA ANGELOU ...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
MAYA ANGELOU We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, ...
MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
MAYA ANGELOU Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over whi...
MAYA ANGELOU Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down,...
MAYA ANGELOU I believe that every person is born with talent.
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MAYA ANGELOU Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
MAYA ANGELOU The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't per...
MAYA ANGELOU A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the be...
MAYA ANGELOU The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind o...
MAYA ANGELOU Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
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MAYA ANGELOU My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I al...
MAYA ANGELOU Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes...
MAYA ANGELOU At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistanc...
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MAYA ANGELOU Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
MAYA ANGELOU The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
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MAYA ANGELOU If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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MAYA ANGELOU I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and...
MAYA ANGELOU We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the thr...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain...
MAYA ANGELOU I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them sibling...
MAYA ANGELOU The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more bl...
MAYA ANGELOU Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoe...
MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go ...
MAYA ANGELOU The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
MAYA ANGELOU If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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MAYA ANGELOU When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
MAYA ANGELOU If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts
MAYA ANGELOU A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe
MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
MAYA ANGELOU My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday ev...
MAYA ANGELOU I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know...
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MAYA ANGELOU Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that...
MAYA ANGELOU As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de...
MAYA ANGELOU If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person...
MAYA ANGELOU The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
MAYA ANGELOU To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
MAYA ANGELOU The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
MAYA ANGELOU We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are...
MAYA ANGELOU I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and bel...
MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
MAYA ANGELOU It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...
MAYA ANGELOU The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
MAYA ANGELOU I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
MAYA ANGELOU I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
MAYA ANGELOU Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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MAYA ANGELOU We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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