"I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
― Maya Angelou
Topic(s): Life
More From Maya Angelou
- "The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
- "Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
- "If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."
More In Life
- "Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn’t thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden."― Tom Glazer
- "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."― Plato
- "Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."― Charles M. Schulz