Grateful for being here

“I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.”—Maya Angelou

Just U.S. History

“Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” —Maya Angelou Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/black_history

Knowing Where we Have Been

“For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth.  No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.” – Dr. Maya Angelou, author and poet

In Memory of Dr. Maya Angelou

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style” ― Maya Angelou By now you have probably heard of Dr. Angelou’s passing in May. I chose the above quote because I think is captures what her life wasContinue reading “In Memory of Dr. Maya Angelou”