Author Quotes

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"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."

-- 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."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one."

-- Maya Angelou

"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."

-- Maya Angelou

"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."

-- Maya Angelou

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

-- Maya Angelou

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

-- Maya Angelou

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

-- Maya Angelou

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

-- Maya Angelou

"I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it."

-- Maya Angelou

"I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it."

-- Maya Angelou

"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."

-- Maya Angelou

"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."

-- Maya Angelou

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it."

-- Maya Angelou

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision."

-- Maya Angelou

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

-- Maya Angelou

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

-- Maya Angelou

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."

-- Maya Angelou

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."

-- Maya Angelou

"Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman."

-- Maya Angelou

"Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman."

-- Maya Angelou

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

-- Maya Angelou

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

-- Maya Angelou

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

-- Maya Angelou

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

-- Maya Angelou

"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant."

-- Maya Angelou

"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant."

-- Maya Angelou

"A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim."

-- Maya Angelou

"A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim."

-- Maya Angelou

"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."

-- Maya Angelou

"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'."

-- Maya Angelou

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

-- Maya Angelou

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

-- Maya Angelou

"We need much less than we think we need."

-- Maya Angelou

"We need much less than we think we need."

-- Maya Angelou

"Nothing will work unless you do."

-- Maya Angelou

"Nothing will work unless you do."

-- Maya Angelou

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

-- Maya Angelou

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

-- Maya Angelou

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

-- Maya Angelou

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

-- Maya Angelou

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

-- Maya Angelou

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

-- Maya Angelou