"I have respect for the past, but..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.”

“I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.”

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

“Confidence is the present tense of hope.”

“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

“If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.”

“There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.”

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”