My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.Maya Angelou
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.Maya Angelou
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.Maya Angelou
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.Maya Angelou
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.Maya Angelou
Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.Maya Angelou
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.Maya Angelou
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.Maya Angelou