Quotes about Reflection

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.

Since life is our most precious gift And since it is given to us to live but once, Let us so live that we will not regret

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

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

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?

The wise woman thinks twice and speaks once or, better yet, does not speak at all.

Baby, I've been thinking and now I am sure. You are the greatest woman I've ever met.

Adults had lost the wisdom from the surface of their faces. I reasoned that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Her husband remains, in my memory, undefined. I lumped him with all the other white men that I had ever seen and tried not to see.

after all, girls have to giggle, and after being a woman for theee years I was about to become a girl.

He turned his back and went through the door into the cool beyond. Momma backed up inside herself for a few minutes. I forgot everything except her face which was almost a new one to me. She leaned over and took the doorknob, and in her everyday soft voice she said, "Sister, go on downstairs. Wait for me. I'll be there directly.

Upon certain subject I am able to hold my tongue and hope that time will right wrongs.