Maya Angelou Quotes

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014

Topics

WorkSuccessGoodMorningFreedom

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

Meek Mill

MoneyMaking MoneyProfitAlwaysOff

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

LoveBusinessThinkPrivilegeMore

The historian Linda Colley has analysed how and why George III transformed himself from being a figure of 'perfect hatred' to the father of the country.

Amanda Foreman

FatherPerfectCountryWhyHatred

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Simon Newcomb

BestMenGeniusDownGoSame

I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always for social media - to talk to my bros and my fans and my friends.

Ross Lynch

Social MediaI AmWorldMediaEnjoy

When I look at my own career, growing up, I was doing really well at age 11, but it was kind of isolating because back then, people weren't hanging out with me. My mom was always there. She had my back and was like, 'You keep focused. You gotta keep focused.' And I think those kinds of lessons were hard.

Michelle Kwan

AgePeopleMeMomGrowing UpThink

I want to do things of significance, things that will inspire people to know how good life can be.

Judge Reinhold

LifeGoodPeopleInspireGood Life

I guess I've just always had an entrepreneurial spirit.

Jon Taffer

SpiritAlwaysJustEntrepreneurial

The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.

Dolores O'Riordan

MusicHeartTimeVoiceFeelingOut

It's funny that a lot of the fans of 'Angel' have come over and hung out with me on 'Leverage.' I was so fortunate to have been on that show. It created one of the best fan groups ever. I just have the best fans in the world.

Christian Kane

FunnyBestMeAngelWorldLeverage

I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.

Cleveland Abbe

DieCountryWillStartedWhich

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

Armie Hammer

ReadingBusyNeverOutsideFairyUp

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