Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
Curiosity had often lured me to the edge of ruin. For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. …
Look and Listen #12: Maya Angelou, We Wear the Mask
In honor of Juneteenth, Maya Angelou’s poem, “We Wear the Mask.” She was a masterful reader, dancing on the edge of emotion. May we all learn how to listen and …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
I am convinced that most people do not grow up… We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow …
Most Popular Quotes of 2014
I truly enjoy putting together a quote with a picture. These ten quotes were big hits with readers this year. Here’s the last of the “most popular” post lists. Tomorrow I’ll finish …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
“Sister, there are people who went to sleep all over the world last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. Sister, those who …
A Brave and Startling Truth from Maya Angelou
A Brave and Startling Truth We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination …