"You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway."

-- Maya Angelou

#Thinking Quotes #May Quotes #Speak Quotes

“The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.”
“Back in the '60s, for example, just as inflation was beginning to be a big problem, Presidents J.F.Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson would often publicly browbeat companies for raising prices and threatening to move federal defense purchases to different countries.”

Source : "Analyzing the long-term value of Trump’s Carrier agreement". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. December 1, 2016.
“I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.”

Source : "Q&A: Mark Thomas, comedian and political activist". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2011.
“Probably I'm more of a fan of the literary references than the pop-culture references. But I do go to the pop-culture well quite frequently because people, I think, are sort of inherently ready to laugh at that. It's a free laugh almost. Usually, everybody gets it.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations”
“It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.”
“Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy, and ought to be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we may admire the brilliant spots and eyes of the viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile.”

You may also like:

Alice Walker
Author
Cicely Tyson
Actress
Langston Hughes
Poet
Michelle Obama
First Lady of the United States
Oprah Winfrey
Media proprietor
Robert Frost
Poet
Ruby Dee
Actress
Toni Morrison
Novelist
William Wordsworth
Poet