71 Quotes by Cicely Tyson

As life has taught me time and again, you often have to lose your present circumstance to make room for your forthcoming one.

That is, in this life, who we are for one another--fellow sojourners and witnesses. We are here to see and hear one another.

Relationships are knitted together by need. When two people connect, the purpose each is serving in the other's life is what holds the union in place, keeps the ragged edges of its hemline sewn.

Healing, as I see it, is not the absence of pain. Rather it is a gradual reduction in the ache. The lessening of that hurt eventually makes room for fond memories to surface.

When you ask God for strength, as I do daily, he doesn't usually just drop it from the sky. He often answers by placing you in a circumstance that requires you to build fortitude while relying solely on him.

Anger would've been the justified response, and for a time in private, I was certainly apoplectic. But as life has taught me more than once, resentment corrodes the veins of the person who carries it.

Turning a blind eye to our history has not saved us from its consequences.

Our feet tell our stories. They carry us through this life, moving us from one sorrow and season to the next. Our gait can reveal us to be buoyant or bullish, dispirited or steadfast.

…when parents think they're protecting their children by withholding the truth. They are in fact exposing them to heartache.