Maya Angelou

“Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.”

“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.”

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

“I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

“The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.”

“The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.”

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”