Maya Angelou Quotes

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PositiveYouTryEverythingSeenUs

By the beginning of the 20th century, the debate about monetary policy and the nation's financial system had been going on for over a century. Increasingly, the shortcomings of the existing system were causing too much harm to ignore.

Jerome Powell

BeginningFinancialIgnoreToo Much

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

John Logan

ManPeopleMeGrowing UpFeelGay

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

Robert Kennedy

FitnessExcellenceStrongConfident

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Matthew Sweet

TimeThreeWantMy OwnQuestionOut

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

Stella McCartney

MomentLosingMum

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Spiro T. Agnew

PeopleWinDesireYoungYoung People

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

Mike Birbiglia

FunnyTimeSchoolHigh SchoolStory

I'm not very comfortable with what people sometimes say or think about me - things I don't feel responsible for.

Michael Schumacher

PeopleMeThinkFeelSometimesSay

There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy.

Jonathan Klein

NewsWillRightAlwaysSideGoing

Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell.

Brie Larson

LiveHellArtistRiseDownLipstick

At night, I'll do coconut oil or almond oil on my face as a mask to replenish my skin. I've found those are so simple but work better than any other product. Coconut oil is so good, but if you don't want to smell like a cookie, sweet almond oil isn't as pungent.

Phillipa Soo

WorkGoodSimpleSweetNightFace

Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we'd moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents' houses were 'home,' and the sale of the last of those houses was hard.

Susanna Kearsley

HomeGrowing UpUniverseBackWay

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