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Some Quotes by Maya Angelou
- My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated…
- Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
- I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
- What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity…
- I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like…
- Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love…
- The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and…
- Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister…
- I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother,…
- I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The…
- I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine…
- If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you…
- We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people…
- I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is…
- 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…
- We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within…
- As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
- I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others…
- Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
- One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound…
- When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same…
- 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…
- The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.
- My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some…
- The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- 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
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong