Maya Angelou - Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Maya Angelou - I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Maya Angelou - It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Maya Angelou - It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Maya Angelou - Nothing will work unless you do.

Maya Angelou - The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

Maya Angelou - If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Maya Angelou - 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 - 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 impor

Maya Angelou - Won’t it be wonderful when Black history, and Native American history, and Jewish history, and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Maya Angelou - You may kill me with your hatefulness. But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Maya Angelou - There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Maya Angelou - How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes

Maya Angelou - “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

Albert Einstein - Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

W. C. Fields - If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.