Maya Angelou Quotes

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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YourselfWake UpGiftDoingYouUp

I have a mind that always wants to be busy.

Matt Letscher

MindBusyAlwaysWants

Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.

Jason Bateman

BirthdayRememberPhonePictures

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

David Selby

PeacePeopleWishI WishWonderful

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

Conrad Burns

NatureCompromiseYouWantProduct

I'm the guy who puts projects together.

Bobby Schilling

TogetherGuyWhoProjectsPuts

I need work. I still audition for work. I don't get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.

Bojana Novakovic

WorkWork HardNeedHardOutThings

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

Alice Miller

SimpleChildhoodPeopleFreeBelieve

I didn't pick wrestling over football. My coaches picked that for me. I never wanted to wrestle in college. I always wanted to play football. They thought I was too small, but I had a lot of heart.

Tyron Woodley

HeartFootballCollegeMeSmall

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

Thomas S. Monson

LifeWorkChildrenChooseImportant

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

Rick Perlstein

ConfidenceOptimismPeopleChaosHim

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

Rickie Lee Jones

PoliticalCountryFallingYourOK

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Leon Trotsky

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