anger Quotes

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?