Maya Angelou Quotes About Past

• Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Powerful, Past

• We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

  Maya Angelou

  Forgiveness, Peace, Attitude

• We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Past, Community

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 09, 2014

• The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

  Maya Angelou

  Past, Past Present Future, Doe

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 20, 2011

• 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 any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

  Maya Angelou

  Peace, Jobs, Vacation

  "Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now". Book by Maya Angelou, www.politico.com. 1993.

• I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

  Maya Angelou

  Past, Next, Moments

  Interview with Randy Cordova, www.azcentral.com. 2011.

• Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

  Maya Angelou

  Past, One Day, Needs

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.64, Bantam

• We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

  Maya Angelou

  Past, History, Knows

• Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Pain, Ocean

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2012

• It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

  Maya Angelou

  Morning, Writing, Heart

• I have great respect for the past.

  Maya Angelou

  Past, Great Respect

  Source: www.azcentral.com

• I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

  Maya Angelou

  Past, Moments, Persons

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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