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Been Quotes by Maya Angelou
- My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I…
- While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
- For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he…
- My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
- The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
- My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring…
- You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us,…
- I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself…
- 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…
- I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.
- You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm…
- Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must…
- remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do…
- Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
- You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been…
- I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you…
- Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.
- I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness…
- My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin…
- We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know…
- It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to…
- Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black…
- Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.
- First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better…
- The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour