Maya Angelou Quotes

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthChildrenPeopleGrowHonor

I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip.

Joanna Lumley

MarriageFatherMeGossipStopOut

For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.

Meir Soloveichik

SpiritualBlessedStateCelibacy

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

Stanley Hauerwas

CommunityWorldChristianViolence

I haven't agreed with every one of my Republican colleagues or Democratic colleagues on every issue. But I'm supporting Donald Trump because we need change in this country.

Mike Pence

ChangeColleaguesDonald TrumpNeed

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

Conor Oberst

LoveLove IsMomThinkKnowReason

On a daily basis, jeans and t-shirt is still sexy, but it doesn't look like you're trying too hard.

Tila Tequila

DailySexyTryingYouLookT-Shirt

To think that any animal would be trapped makes me so sad. It's like living in your bedroom for your entire life and never being able to go outside.

Noah Cyrus

LifeSadAnimalMeThinkLiving

By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.

Muhammad Yunus

BusinessKnowledgeSocietyImpact

There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a culture far from you, a language far from you, but suddenly you're there. You're that person, seeing with that person's eyes. I think that's really tremendous. Even things like cinema or more traditional history can't quite do that.

Kevin Young

HistoryEyesTimeCultureTravel

It's fun to buy make-up online. It's even more fun to go into a store and buy it.

Jane Lauder

FunGoMoreBuyEvenOnline

People travel and hunt on the sea ice - in Alaska, they hunt in skin boats for bowhead whales; in Greenland, they hunt with dogsleds. The ice is their highway. The ice is also the ecosystem in which marine mammals and terrestrial animals such as polar bears exist.

Gretel Ehrlich

SeaTravelPeopleIceSkinAnimals

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

Grace Jones

FamilyFatherMusicPoliticsKing

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