Maya Angelou Quotes

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If you are going down a road and don’t like what’s in front of you, and look behind you and don’t like what you see, get off the road.  Create a new path!

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist.  Her body of published work is found in autobiographies, essays, poems, and numerous credits in plays, movies, and television shows.

Joan Didion Quote

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

From Ephesians 4:31:  “Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.”

Joan Didion (1934-2021) was an American writer and journalist.

Delaware Quotes

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) journalist, teacher (born in Wilmington)

Self-reliance is the Fine Road to Independence.

Howard Pyle (1853-1911) illustrator, author (born in Wilmington)

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) astronomer (born in Dover)

Curiosity is the compass that guides us to new discoveries.

Left to right:  Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Howard Pyle, Annie Jump Cannon.  (All images courtesy of Pinterest)