Maya Angelou Quotes

Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Maya Angelou

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• Pimples

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• Don't trust anyone over 30.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Trust
  • Over
  • Anyone

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Live
  • Business
  • Support

• The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Song

• My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Morning
  • Road
  • Son

• Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Man
  • Cancer
  • Nothing

• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Reality
  • Cutting
  • Gun

• Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Substitute

• I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Think
  • Start

• Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

  

  Larry David
  • Man
  • Hair
  • Confident

• Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Working
  • Police
  • Corrupt

• I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Science
  • Like
  • Geography

• There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Bad
  • Planning

• there is time to play...and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Time
  • Work

• I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • School
  • College
  • Mad

• I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.

  

  Daniel Sharman
  • Time
  • Long

• The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Hair
  • Beauty
  • Clothes

• Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Hair
  • Soup
  • Pimples