Quotes About Influence

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel

When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me. He

Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.

You have no idea what your legacy will be because your legacy is every life you touch.

You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my mother - yes, you belong in that category. Here, give me a kiss.

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased."-Maya Angelou

During these years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.

She stands between the unknown and the known. In Stockholm, my mother shed her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value. I

Although I enjoyed and respected Kipling, Poe, Butler, Thackeray and Henley, I saved my young and loyal passion for Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois' "Litany at Atlanta." But it was Shakespeare who said, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes." It was a state with which I felt myself most familiar.

If you want to know how important you are to the world, stick your finger in a pond and pull it out. Will the hole remain?

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.

It is by observation that in the future they will not remember what you said, they will not remember what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel.

The only thing you own is your story. Make sure it's a good one.

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

To make a difference is not a matter of accident, a matter of casual occurrence of the tides. People choose to make a difference.

13. "We survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets," (this page) Angelou says of Black people. Do you think that this is true of all cultures? 14. The book title is a reference to a poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Why do you think that Angelou chose this title?

Their love informed, educated, and liberated me.

Mother's beauty made her powerful and her power made her unflinchingly honest.

I read more than ever, and wished my soul that I had been born a boy. Horatio Alger was the greatest writer in the world. His heroes were always good, always won, and were always boys. I could have developed the first two virtues, but becoming a boy was sure to be difficult, if not impossible.

We must insist that the men and women who expect to lead us recognize the true desires of those who are being led.

Jimmy Baldwin was a whirlwind who stirred everything and everybody. He lived at a dizzying pace and I loved spinning with him.

I would miss Mrs. Flowers, for she had given me her secret word which...was to serve me all my life: books.