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African American Quotes by Maya Angelou
- If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
- I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
- I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was…
- The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't…
- Bitterness is like cancer. It eats...
- In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
- You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do…
- Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
- The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted…
More African American Quotes
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for… — Pearl Bailey
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. — Josephine Baker
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we… — James A. Baldwin
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James A. Baldwin
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin