Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
Maya Angelou
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.