"Once you appreciate one of your blessings,..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”

“Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.”

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

“The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.”

“We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.”

“Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.”

“Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.”

“Look for the beauty in things.”

“Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.”