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People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
Quote by -Maya Angelou