"Early on, I was so impressed with Charles……" — Maya Angelou
"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 my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely."
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has 760 quotes on this site.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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More Arkansas Quotes
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I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.
— Mike Huckabee
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Arkansas is really, really nice. Its got the nature feel.
— Kris Allen
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A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister…
— Mike Huckabee
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The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the…
— Joe Conason
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean…
— Pat Buchanan
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
— Molly Ivins
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Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from…
— Mark Pryor
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I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.
— Bette Greene
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In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four…
— Blanche Lincoln
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I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you…
— Richard Dawkins
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Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in…
— Byron York
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