Maya Angelou Quotes

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

Maya Angelou

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• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

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• The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

  

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• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  

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• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

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• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

  

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• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

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• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

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• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  

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  • World
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• He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

  

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• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

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• Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

  

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• There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

  

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• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

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• In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.

  

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• There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

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• My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

  

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• You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.

  

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• It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

  

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• Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.

  

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• Bin Laden studied economics and public administration before he turned to a life of jihad.

  

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• The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

  

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• When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

  

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• Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Shakespeare
  • Influenced