Maya Angelou Quotes

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.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ManMeEarlyVillageTalkMean

My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.

John Hickenlooper

FatherTableHandleTaughtFirearms

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Robert McNamara

FreedomManHimCoercionAfter

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Michael Caine

AgeRelationshipMenWomanSadness

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Sitting Bull

MoneyManI AmPennyWhiteLand

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

Sigrid

MyselfHappyBe HappyAmbitionDoing

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

Ruth Brown

ThroughUpStartedGotApplause

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

Jonathan Haidt

GrowthCultureWarAmericanBack

The first six years of a child's life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences in any way, whatever it hears, is being downloaded into the brain before the consciousness of the child is even made apparent.

Bruce Lipton

LifeChildBrainWayFirstWhatever

I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.

Anohni

VoiceThinkBeingEvenInterested

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

Peter M. Brant

LifeI AmWinHurtProblemLose

I rather like getting away from fiction.

Penelope Lively

FictionAwayLikeRatherGetting

If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you've got 500 animals out there, the young ones and the old ones are going to starve to death because they can't compete. When they starve, they start to eat things they shouldn't be eating and spread disease not only to them but to us.

Shawn Michaels

FoodDeathEatingStartWorthYou

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