Maya Angelou Quotes

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Maya Angelou

• Heart
• Fear
• Black People
• Consume

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Reason

• When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Work
  • School
  • Pretty

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Art
  • Black
  • Automation

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

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

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Dream

• I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Come

• I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Door

• I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Heart
  • She
  • Character

• For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Music
  • Live
  • Heart

• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Heart
  • Through
  • Recall

• I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Passion

• Lysistrata: O women, if we would compel the men to bow to Peace, ... We must refrain from every depth of love.... Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going? Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads? Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep? (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Creation
  • Lives

• I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a questionnaire and they could figure out what I'm about. But I don't think my job is to tell you that.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Book

• Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Black People