Maya Angelou

When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.