Maya Angelou Quotes

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

Maya Angelou

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• If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Want
  • Interesting

• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Trust
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Door

• A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Ideas
  • Religious
  • Belief

• Let's be realistic – 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman. Not that I don't like female superheroes, but watching male superheroes gives me a high.

  

  Kajol
  • Like
  • Female
  • Realistic

• Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Power
  • Manipulation

• Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Even so, I must admire your skill.You are so gracefully insane.

  

  Anne Sexton

• Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Hope
  • Picture
  • Purple

• As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Cool
  • Picture

• Each country has to decide how to best engage their own citizens and their own policy environment to ensure they can produce the food they need.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • Country
  • Food
  • Environment

• There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Women
  • Revolution

• I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

  

  Peter Berg
  • People
  • Football
  • Soldier

• Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music
  • Today

• If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Good

• You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • Up
  • Military

• Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Music

• They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Kids
  • Nations
  • Cells

• In the ’50s and ’60s there was segregation here in the Bay Area and all over the country. There was a curfew for young blacks my age in the Fillmore district where I lived. It was a disturbing thing. There were civil rights movements here in San Francisco. They would show on the national news the dogs being sicced on the marchers, being sprayed with the hoses, being beaten with the batons.

  

  Emory Douglas
  • Movements
  • Civil Rights
  • Segregation

• Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.

  

  David Roediger
  • Problem
  • Taken
  • Slave

• I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Different
  • Age
  • Reality

• 'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Kids

• Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Blacks
  • Whites
  • Parity