I've learned that you shouldn't go throu... by Maya Angelou | We Heart Quotes

Life Author Inspiration Activist Civil rights

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

- Maya Angelou

Other quotes by Maya Angelou

Habit

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

- Maya Angelou

Beauty Time People

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

- Maya Angelou

Women Love

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

- Maya Angelou

Work Nothing Will

Nothing will work unless you do.

- Maya Angelou

Struggle Character Fact

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

- Maya Angelou

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

- Maya Angelou

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