There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
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 AngelouThe devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
Maya AngelouIf I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.
Maya Angelou