Maya Angelou Quotes

It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodHelpRememberStrangersForget

Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.

Max McKeown

ChangeFutureChoicesBelieveMust

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Andy Summers

LifeCollegeRestGuitarMy Life

I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's not impossible, but it is hard to be able to race every single race, and day after day as well.

Sophie Pascoe

ButterflyDayImpossibleRaceHard

I want people to hear me and feel like they can be bold as well.

Stefflon Don

PeopleMeFeelBoldWantWell

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

Robert Winston

TimeResearchColleaguesDoingReal

Because of Iran's support for terrorism, disrespect for human rights, and nuclear proliferation, it has been under U.S. and international sanctions for decades - and companies have been fined billions for circumventing those sanctions.

Mike Pompeo

SupportDisrespectTerrorismHuman

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

Mika

StarsMusicYouWayNeverStar

When I was a kid, I think I wanted to be Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Lucas Till

ThinkKidArnoldWantedI Think

That's nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in 'Ella Enchanted.' I was one of the ugly sisters, and she was the stepmother, so that was great. I'll take that comparison, thank you.

Lucy Punch

MotherGreatUglyThank YouYouShe

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

Josh Radnor

DecisionExperienceStopGoBig

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.

Dick Cheney

MomentSkyPeopleWorldResultYou

The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.

Chris Cornell

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