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American Quotes by Maya Angelou
- I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
- The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted…
- 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…
- 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…
- We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American…
- The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around…
- 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…
- I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep,…
- I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There…
- The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs…
- The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
- How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
- 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 American Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca