Maya Angelou

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Maya Angelou

There’s racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We’ve had bad news as a species for a long time. We’ve had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

Maya Angelou

There’s something also beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

Maya Angelou

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Maya Angelou

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that’s lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

Maya Angelou

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Maya Angelou

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

Maya Angelou

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Maya Angelou

To make a difference is not a matter of accident, a matter of casual occurrence of the tides. People choose to make a difference.

Maya Angelou

To those who are given much, much is expected.

Maya Angelou