Echoes of Wisdom

18/02/2025

“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. 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 at a commensurate speed.”
From “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
- Maya Angelou

18/02/2025

“Take the blinders from your vision
take the padding from your ears
and confess you've heard me crying
and admit you've seen my tears.”
- Maya Angelou

18/02/2025

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.
-Maya Angelou

18/02/2025

“We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”
From “Letter to My Daughter”
- Maya Angelou

17/02/2025

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”
- Maya Angelou

17/02/2025

Still I Rise
- Maya Angelou

17/02/2025

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
- Maya Angelou

16/02/2025

Emily Dickinson

16/02/2025

16/02/2025

Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Said the old man, "I do that too."
The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
I do that too," laughed the little old man.
Said the little boy, "I often cry."
The old man nodded, "So do I."
But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems
Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
I know what you mean," said the little old man.
(Book: Where the Sidewalk Ends)

16/02/2025

William Shakespeare

15/02/2025

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
- Maya Angelou

15/02/2025

“Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.”

From “ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
- Maya Angelou

15/02/2025

I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School. ”

From “ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
-Maya Angelou

15/02/2025

"I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because love liberates. Love liberates it doesn’t just hold, that’s ego, love liberates!"
-Maya Angelou
Happy Valentine's Day!

14/02/2025

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

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 enthusiastic acceptance.”

From “ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
- Maya Angelou

14/02/2025

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
- Maya Angelou