Maya Angelou Quotes

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • School
  • Change
  • Acting

• The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • End

• What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Work
  • Art
  • Change

• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Diversity
  • Filmmaking

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Him

• 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • More
  • Because
  • Brothers

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
  • Home
  • Texas

• Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Time
  • Day
  • Politics

• When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

  

  B. B. King
  • God
  • Sleep
  • Yourself

• Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Method

• When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fun

• A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

  

  Brendan Behan
  • Book

• The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I don't think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Good
  • Children

• The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • History
  • Complexes

• If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.

  

  Jon Bellion
  • Business
  • Wise

• A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Enemy
  • Wise
  • Wishes