“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced w...” — Maya Angelou Quote

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

“In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.”

“At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.”

“It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.”

“Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don't have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist.”

“Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”