Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
Maya AngelouLet's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.
Maya AngelouCourage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
Maya AngelouI encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.
Maya AngelouI've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya AngelouIn today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.
Maya Angelou