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Who Quotes by Maya Angelou
- When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
- I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
- I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
- I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the…
- Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to…
- I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for…
- Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
- I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I…
- When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not…
- Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in…
- For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries…
- If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective…
- Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and…
- That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to…
- 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…
- I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
- What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need…
More Who Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle