Maya Angelou Quotes

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CelebrateImportantHeroesUsOur

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

Joe Biden

HomeMeWindowViewGoKind

The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.

Jerry Della Femina

MondayPeopleFridayWinnersThrough

As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.

Stephanie Coontz

ChildEnoughSummerGrandmotherEach

Ideas have consequences.

Robert Zubrin

IdeasConsequences

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

Lucretius

SweetLandWindsHighStruggles

I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.

Chris Matthews

FunPeopleBlackLaughWrongPlay

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Arne Jacobsen

BestChooseTaskSolutionsArtistic

The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

AchievementPrideMeaningValues

You got a snaggletooth? Show it off. You have an overbite? Bite some more.

Phoebe Robinson

YouMoreGotShowOffBite

Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.

Peter Diamandis

MindIdeasThinkingWayOpenYour

Chicago is my absolute favorite city. It's clean, the food is amazing, and everyone is so warm and welcoming. We've gotten really, really used to it and really excited about our second home in Chicago.

Shanola Hampton

HomeFoodCityAmazingWarmChicago

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

Richard Dawkins

GovernmentPeopleThinkUpWear

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