I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala! Votes: 3
Maya AngelouIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Votes: 1 Maya Angelou
Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. Votes: 3 Maya Angelou
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me. Votes: 3 Maya Angelou
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. Votes: 3 Maya Angelou
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. Votes: 4 Maya Angelou
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou. Votes: 4 Ben Shapiro
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult. Votes: 3 Maya Angelou
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music. Votes: 1 Maya Angelou
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Votes: 1 Maya Angelou
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. Votes: 1 Maya Angelou
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Votes: 1 Maya Angelou