What Humility Does For One Is It Reminds Us That There Are People Before Me. I Have Already Been Paid

“What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.”

—Maya Angelou

“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

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”

—Maya Angelou

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

—Maya Angelou

“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”

—Maya Angelou

“I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.”

—Maya Angelou