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Way Quotes by Maya Angelou
- In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
- Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard…
- Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write…
- 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 will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here.…
- I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat.…
- I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we…
- As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not…
- I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of…
- I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way…
- 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…
- Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.
- When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way...
- You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or…
- 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…
- Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
- I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and…
- We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success…
- 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…
- There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead…
- Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people…
- A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he…
- Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might…
- You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a…
- What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about…
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- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a… — J. J. Abrams
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen