If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Category Archive: Maya Angelou
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
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.’
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.