Diane M.

“While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.”
― Mary Church Terrell

“You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”
― Maya Angelou

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”
― Maya Angelou

“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings