Quote of the Day

When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them.  Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don't believe them.  You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absolutely nothing about you.

-- Maria Popova

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

-- Maya Angelou

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

-- Maya Angelou

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When you learn, teach.
When you get, give.

-- Maya Angelou, "Our Grandmothers"

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You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

-- Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise"

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Nothing will work unless you do.

-- Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou:

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou:

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.

Maya Angelou:

People do what they know to do -- not what you think they should know.

Maya Angelou:

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.