« All Language Quotes · Maya Angelou's Page
Language Quotes by Maya Angelou
- I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
- I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
- I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and…
- Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and…
- On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
- The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may…
- We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.
- Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
- When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we…
- I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure…
More Language Quotes
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
- In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can… — Michelle Bachelet
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot