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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
And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"
Quote by -Maya Angelou
The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods?
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white America and do things I can't do.The Puerto Rican, Hawaiians, just about everybody can do more than black people and are more respected.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali