Quotes about Legacy

All I got to do is stay black and die.

You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.

Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.

You have no idea what your legacy will be because your legacy is every life you touch.

When I find myself filling with rage over the loss of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns and questions should be focused on what I learned or what I have yet to learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life?

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased."-Maya Angelou

Did I learn to be kinder, To be more patient, And more generous, More loving, More ready to laugh, And more easy to accept honest tears? If I accept those legacies of my departed beloveds, I am able to say, Thank You to them for their love and Thank You to God for their lives.

The only thing you own is your story. Make sure it's a good one.

La esencia se escapa, pero su aura permanece

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come."- Maya Angelou

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave