Maya Angelou quotes about memory & the past
13 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Maya Angelou wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 214 in the full collection.
You may write me down in history
And every goodbye ain’t gone.
Nostalgia is not my forté
I keep on dying again.
The past is brighter yet.
Cotton rows crisscross the world
Alone. I remember now.
I answer the heroic question, “Death, where is thy sting?” with “It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.”
I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.
We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled.
I answer the heroic question, “Death, where is thy sting?” with “It is here in my heart and mind and memories.”
Knowing Momma, I knew that I never knew Momma.
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- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings quotes · 41 lines (1969)
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