Maya Angelou Quotes

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Jim Mattis

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We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

John Fiske

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A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.

John Ortberg

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'Toast of London' is a must-watch. Matt Berry's off-the-wall humour is slightly surreal and a little bit deviant. That's why I also love 'House of Fools.'

Maxine Peake

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The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Robert Reich

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I'm not going to get mad over something that I have no control over.

Max Holloway

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My parents were very protective of me and my brother, so they never talked to us about the situation in our country.

Ana Ivanovic

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I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would veto our joining NATO.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Mary Wesley

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I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Mike Figgis

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What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

Millicent Fawcett

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My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity.

Jordin Sparks

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