Maya Angelou Quotes

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Maya Angelou

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• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

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• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

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• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

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• In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.

  

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• If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.

  

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• Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.

  

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• My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.

  

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• I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.

  

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• There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night.

  

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• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  

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• Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.

  

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• In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Education
  • Segregation
  • Liberated