Maya Angelou

You can’t be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

Maya Angelou

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’

Maya Angelou

You can’t get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Maya Angelou

You don’t need another person, place, or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

Maya Angelou

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

Maya Angelou

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don’t whine! Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

Maya Angelou

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

Maya Angelou

You never get over the fear of writing.

Maya Angelou

Always in the black spirituals there’s that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

Maya Angelou

Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody’s clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.

Maya Angelou