My Account Help

Add the "Dynamic Daily Quotation" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy!

Quotations

Quotation:

“The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

About: African American quotes, Respect quotes, Race quotes.

Add to Chapter...

21-30 Quotations of 139

Users who liked this quote also liked:

“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

Similar Quotes. About: Courage quotes, Potential quotes.

Add to Chapter...

“I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

Similar Quotes. About: Life quotes, God quotes, Mankind quotes.

Add to Chapter...

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

Similar Quotes. About: Truth quotes, Facts quotes.

Add to Chapter...

“Courage allows the successful woman to fail-
and learn powerful lessons-
from the failure-
so that in the end,
she didn't fail at all.”

nevastopdancin

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

Similar Quotes. About: Courage quotes, Women quotes.

Add to Chapter...

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

Similar Quotes. About: Bitterness quotes.

Add to Chapter...

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

Similar Quotes. About: Diversity quotes, Colors quotes.

Add to Chapter...

“My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

Similar Quotes.

Add to Chapter...

“The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

Similar Quotes. About: Thought quotes.

Add to Chapter...

“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

Similar Quotes.

Add to Chapter...

“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”

Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

Similar Quotes. About: Country quotes.

Add to Chapter...

Suggested

> T-Shirt quotes
> funny quotes
> famous quotes
> movie quotes
> sayings
> proverbs
> funny sayings
> Inspirational Quotes
> Cute Quotes
> Friendship Quotes
> Motivational Quotes