Maya Angelou Quotes

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterRespectStruggleAcceptance

I have a very nice voice.

Jens Lekman

VoiceNiceVery

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Tom Cruise

TalkMeansSettlingDisputes

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

Drew Carey

WorkMoneyPeopleRichFeelGuilt

Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

Clive Thompson

LoveBusinessServiceDayPeople

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

Bob Woodward

RoadDeepKindMapWatergateSource

In reality shows, you have to perform once and prove yourself, and after that, it is a process to prove yourself every day.

Arijit Singh

DayYourselfProcessRealityYou

I think about a young person who is sitting at home, 13 or 14, a person of color, possibly questioning their sexuality, and watching Dr. Hugh Culber and saying, 'I'm a part of an ideal future that we could work towards.' We're planting seeds in the minds of young people to say, 'Your possibilities are limitless.'

Wilson Cruz

WorkHomeFuturePeopleSaying

The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars.

Phyllis Schlafly

PurposeWinPossibleMilitaryDefend

I went to the prom with a girlfriend of my sister's, a platonic date.

Tim Matheson

SisterGirlfriendPromDatePlatonic

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

Richard Rogers

TechnologyScienceHistoryArtOver

I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that.

Richard Schiff

I AmMeBelieveLuckyForgottenAm

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Marianne Williamson

LoveCircumstancesLittleAttract

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