
People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.

A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning. He

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

When we know better, we do better.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

You can never be great at anything unless you love it.

Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.

One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.

Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

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.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

We are more alike than we are unalike!" That

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

But still, like air, I'll rise

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

The future is plump with promise.

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

I was seventeen, very old, embarrassingly young,

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Never let white folks know what you really think. If you're sad, laugh. If you're bleeding inside, dance.

Lovers think quite different thoughts
while lying side by side.

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.

She's one of our fans. She comes to the theater and allows us to curse and berate her, and that's her contribution to our struggle. Roscoe

You can call for the cook, call for the baker, you may as well call for the undertaker.

under my eye, but not my thumb.

Let nothing dim the light that shines from within

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

You dwell in whitened castles
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats.

Still I'll rise.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

They were assured that they were going to be the only inhabitants of that milk and honey...

Removed from their own day of glorious release

A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. I

Life loves the liver of it.

A mother's love liberates.