Maya Angelou Quotes

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Maya Angelou

• Grew Up
• Whites
• Charles Dickens

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• If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Attention

• As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Happy

• If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Lazy

• I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • May
  • American
  • Sick

• The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Popular
  • Improvement

• When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

  

  Jerry Saltz

• The DNA of 'Deadpool' shouldn't change.

  

  David Leitch

• We have the Nasdaq private market. But we also want to make sure that every investor has an opportunity to ultimately join in growth and the success of these great companies that we have that have been formed in the United States.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Great
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• I don't like pain.

  

  Edward Bryant
  • Pain

• I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Job
  • Beginning
  • Independent

• Governments around the world are looking for economic growth and job creation. African economies are no exception, with increasing recognition that growth has to be built on a more diversified economic structure in order to make a lasting contribution to development.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • World
  • Job
  • Growth

• I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

  

  Billy Connolly
  • Red
  • Army

• If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older - even if we can't pull all-nighters like we used to.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • May
  • Quality
  • Effort

• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • Earth
  • Single
  • Water

• In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

  

  John Erskine
  • Up
  • She

• Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'

  

  Joko Beck
  • She

• I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Grew Up

• I grew up with my dad. I'm an only child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Dad
  • Son
  • Wanted

• Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Kids
  • Baseball
  • United States

• The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...

  

  George Washington
  • Heaven
  • Addresses
  • Disregard

• Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Grew Up
  • Whites
  • Charles Dickens