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Known Quotes by Maya Angelou
- I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It…
- Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your…
- Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your…
- I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
- How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
- The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but…
- Sometimes the people whom we've know for only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known forever.
More Known Quotes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known. — Bob Barker
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch
- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch