All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou Great
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.' Maya Angelou History
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name. Maya Angelou Women
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou Home
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. Maya Angelou Relationship
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place. Maya Angelou Respect
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. Maya Angelou Respect