Maya Angelou Quotes About Black History
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
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I am the dream and the hope of the slave
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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.
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A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.
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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.
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