Maya Angelou Quotes About Quality

• In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

  Maya Angelou

  Order, Two, African American

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.218, Modern Library

• While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

  Maya Angelou

  Technology, Men, Ghana

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

• The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Education

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

• There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Soul, Mind

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

• "Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not including my mother or Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in that." She said, "You are very intelligent and you're very kind, and those two qualities do not often go together." Then she went across the street and got in her car, and I went the other way down to the streetcar. I thought, "Suppose she's right. She's intelligent - and she's too mean to lie." You see, a parent has the chance - and maybe the responsibility - to liberate her child. And my mom had liberated me when I was 17.

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

• I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Design, Quality

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