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

“All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.”

—Maya Angelou

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

—Maya Angelou

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

—Noam Chomsky

“A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.”

—Maya Angelou

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

—Maya Angelou