Quotes about Perception

When someone shows you who they are, the first time, believe them Maya Angelou

When people show you who they are believe them the first time

We are only as blind as we want to be

Knowing Momma, I knew that I never knew Momma.

I read more than ever, and wished my soul that I had been born a boy. Horatio Alger was the greatest writer in the world. His heroes were always good, always won, and were always boys. I could have developed the first two virtues, but becoming a boy was sure to be difficult, if not impossible.

We had expected three cots in our room, but found one large lumpy bed, a very worn carpet and a single overhead light. "You mean this is what these people got out of their revolution?" Martha daintily picked her way around the room. "Someone should tell them that they're about due for another." She wrinkled her pretty face in distaste. Ethel

My eyes absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

But they talked, and from the side of the building where I waited for the ground to open up and swallow me, I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and melting.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve to peer into my eyes while I within deny their threats and answer them with lies

His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age, but his face believed the freshness of his words, and I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.

when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time