My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.
Maya AngelouWe are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
Maya AngelouListen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.
Maya AngelouWe may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.
Maya Angelou