'I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.' #MayaAngelou

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.” #MayaAngelou

'The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.' #MayaAngelou

'When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.' #MayaAngelou

“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up - lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”

'Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence, neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.' #MayaAngelou

'I would encourage us all, African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Whites, Native Americans to study history. I long for the time when all the human history is taught as one history.” #MayaAngelou Happy #Indigenous Peoples' Day! -The Angelou Johnson Family 
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“What I really want to do is be a representative of my race, of the human race...I know that when I finish doing what I’m sent here to do, I will be called home. And I will go home without any fear, trepidations, wondering what’s gonna happen.” #MayaAngelou

'The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.' #MayaAngelou

'When you learn, teach. When you get, give'. #MayaAngelou Happy World #Teachers ' Day! Dr. Angelou valued education and taught at Wake Forest University for over 30 years. We celebrate all teachers who continue to lead and develop students beyond the classroom. -The Angelou Johnson Family

'It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.' #MayaAngelou Happy #Hispanic and #Latinx Heritage Month! facebook.com/MayaAngelou/ph…

'Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.' #MayaAngelou

'It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.'
#MayaAngelou

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.' #MayaAngelou

'Give yourself time just to be with yourself.' #MayaAngelou

'I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.' #MayaAngelou

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” #MayaAngelou

'I'm grateful to be an #American . I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every #Muslim .' #MayaAngelou #September11 instagram.com/p/CiXeLzpuSqJ/

'A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and herself only.' #MayaAngelou