"Don't hesitate to learn the most painful..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.”

“In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'”

“Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.”

“Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.”

“Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.”

“I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.”

“Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.”

“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

“To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.”