Maya Angelou Quotes

I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeLivePeoplePotentialLook

I ask Hoosiers to come together and vote for Barack Obama to be our next President.

Joe Andrew

TogetherVotePresidentAskNext

If you don't have a good case, and you don't have a good message, then shining a light on it is not going to get you very far.

Amal Clooney

GoodLightYouGoingGetFar

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.

Tom Stoppard

MathematicsQueenI AmCertaintyLed

The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven.

Tom Douglas

BetterTryingYouTwoWithoutGoing

I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings like that. It was only in the Philippines when I was about 15 that I started reading books by very contemporary writers of the Beatnik generation.

Romesh Gunesekera

AgeReadingGenerationFeelingsOnly

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

Miranda Raison

TravelSicknessBadSufferBecause

I will never ally with Islamophobes and racists. But in the choice between 'community' and Muslim women, I will always choose my sisters.

Mona Eltahawy

WomenCommunityChooseChoiceNever

The first thing to be said about 'Prague Winter,' former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, is that she very wisely chooses to confront early on in it her apparent surprise at learning late in life that she was born Jewish.

Michael Korda

LifeWinterLearningBookSurprise

I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

Jay McShann

MusicListeningTryingEverything

Taxidermy is the one thing I collect that I've never used.

Donald Baechler

NeverUsedOne ThingThe One Thing

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

Dolly Parton

PlayTryYearsThroughThingsGet

People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.

Christopher Voss

WorkPeopleLyingMoreHardBeing

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