Top 100 My People Quotes
#1. This is my race, but these are not my people. I
Ann Aguirre
#2. Then [after Castro dies and her triumphal return to Havana], at last, I could sing for my people.
Gloria Estefan
#3. I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Elizabeth I
#4. I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
Maya Angelou
#5. And it beats inside me, this terrible hope, as I know that the end has begun, and I am finally awake. "Break the chains," I roar. And my people roar back.
Pierce Brown
#6. I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#7. He looks down at me with sincere eyes. 'If I were human, I would have been the first in line for you ... ' He looks away. 'But I'm not. I'm an archangel, and my people are in trouble. I have no choice but to try to set things straight. I can't get distracted by a Daughter of Man.
Susan Ee
#8. The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.
Nelson Mandela
#9. There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
Ethel Waters
#10. That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart. Two hundred fuckin' languages, and a billion people. India is the heart. It's the heart that keeps us together. There's no place with people like my people, Lin. There's no heart like the Indian heart.
Gregory David Roberts
#11. My people were divided about surrendering.
Chief Joseph
#12. Not for the first time, I longed to tell someone that I was one of them, a sympathizer with the Left, a revolutionary fighting for peace, equality, democracy, freedom, and independence, all the noble things my people had died for and I had hid for.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#13. My people are impressing on Tulwar's people the wisdom of surrender and a rapid shift of allegiance. I'm counting on most them being opportunist thugs who'll recognize a good thing when it's offered to them.
Alastair Reynolds
#14. YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN A MIX OF TRIUMPHS AND TOILS, CHALLENGES AND TESTS, AND YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND WORTHY. YOUR FAITH IN ME AND YOUR LOVING HEART ARE A TESTAMENT TO MY PEOPLE.
'Thank you, my God.'
COME, BE WITH ME. SIT WITH ME AT MY TABLE; JOIN ME IN RAPTURE. AND BRING YOUR CUTE FRIEND TOO.
Daniel Keidl
#15. I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"
Taraji P. Henson
#16. I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was I supposed to say? That my father is the president, and my mother is his slave?
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
#17. Sometimes
the beauty of my people
is
so
thick and intricate.
i spend days
trying
to undo my eyes
so
i can sleep.
Nayyirah Waheed
#18. My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.
Romare Bearden
#19. If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.
Bob Marley
#20. I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
Loretta Lynn
#21. Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.
Lena Horne
#22. abandonment of spiritual values which makes us stand aghast.' The Mir answered: 'Neither could you provide entertainment for your people, nor could you bind them to your person. To call them "my people
Idries Shah
#23. I am the Merlin, bane of the Vale, terror of the four lands. I am chaos and shadows, the last of my people.
Jennifer Silverwood
#24. A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
Sitting Bull
#25. My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.
Wilma Mankiller
#27. Finally he spoke. "You love them that much, 'Ene?"
"They have become my people, Father."
"It has been less than two months."
"Love is independent of time, Father.(...)
Brandon Sanderson
#28. My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
Pam Grier
#29. I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people ... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.
Russell Means
#30. If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
#31. As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
Angela Davis
#32. Farewell Aragorn. Go to Minas Tirith and save my people! I have failed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#33. Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.
Larry L. King
#34. To me nonviolence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people. Therefore I am devoting all my energies toward the establishment of a society that would be based on its principles of truth and peace.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
#35. Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.
Julius Nyerere
#36. I assumed that in this moment I'd be terrified of walking into a new world, but I'm not afraid at all.
I'm filled with a childlike excitement to see what comes next.
As long as my people are with me, I'm ready for anything.
Blake Crouch
#37. I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.
Kiese Laymon
#38. People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
#39. Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.
Bill Gates
#40. I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.
Y. C. James Yen
#41. I should kill you," Kallan whispered, "and watch your blood run with the cries of my people. If I kill you, all my troubles end. And I go home to Lorlenalin, my father's death avenged.
Angela B. Chrysler
#42. I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
Hunter S. Thompson
#43. I want the white people to understand my people.
Chief Joseph
#44. Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons, we say this is the mockery of democracy and mockery of War on Terror.
Malalai Joya
#46. The best literary device I got from my people was their talk, rough, earthy, salty speech that starts dancing on me sometimes, crying on me other times whether I like it or not.
Mairtin O Cadhain
#47. I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#48. I had betrayed my daughter, my son, my husband and now my people. I was hollow and empty, nothing more than a shadow. But shadows have the power to kill. And in that shadow, I became the Raven Queen.
R.J. Madigan
#49. You think I don't care about my people, but I do... - The Red Queen
Erika Johansen
#50. My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.
Louis Riel
#51. The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to let my people go. After freeing the Indian from the shackles of government supervision, what is the Indian going to do: leave that with the Indian, and it is none of your business.
Carlos Montezuma
#52. I love my people, and my family. Do not think I won't become a monster to keep them protected.
Sarah J. Maas
#53. I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
Chief Joseph
#54. JOE2.26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Anonymous
#55. I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I ... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.
George Weah
#56. I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
Black Elk
#57. This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America
Paul Robeson
#58. I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
James Earl Jones
#59. Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones, even though they are not gods at all? Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God[*] for worthless idols!
Anonymous
#60. I want to know why a fire glows, and why flame dust kills. I want my children or theirs ... to know what makes this radio work, ... and someday this rocket. I want to know much-more than I can learn, no doubt; but if I can start my people learning for themselves ...
Hal Clement
#61. What wouldn't my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?
Renita D'Silva
#62. When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.
David Edwards
#63. Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it all out loud. Your virtue and your flaw- we need them both.
Orson Scott Card
#64. Robert Murray McCheyne declared: My people's greatest need is my personal holiness.
J.I. Packer
#65. I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
Naomi Campbell
#66. This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!
Anzia Yezierska
#67. I need to address my people, and I need to look the part. I will walk out onto the balcony with my head held high, fulfilling the fantasy I'd had as a little girl in my father's home.
Marie Lu
#68. I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the women who could bear children in the future. I was unable to save my people, only their memory.
Roman Vishniac
#70. All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not burden my fellow students
I must not let that change. I must not become like them. I'll remember that every sin, every death, every sacrifice, is for freedom.
Pierce Brown
#71. There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.
Michael Jackson
#72. I can be like a lioness when defending my people.
Shakira
#73. My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty ... and the heart ... Well, you know ... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.
Joss Whedon
#74. Its like you said? i lead my people-" forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire-" desert?" lenthan looked anxious again. "fire? i thought we were going to the stars!" sorry. wrong script" zifnab said
Margaret Weis
#75. I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.
Muhammad Ali
#76. My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.
John Kasich
#77. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. it is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.
Oscar Wilde
#78. My people always tol' me, 'You can stay in Hell a little while, long as you know you're gettin' out.
Lisa Patton
#79. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of
themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember
Eric Foner
#80. The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people ... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.
Benjamin Zephaniah
#81. I try to show everybody Iceland all the time. My people are like, "Don't tell everybody the secret. It's so peaceful and beautiful here!" It's incredible; I go home and drive across country, and go to my mom's place and it's dark with the Northern Lights, and I like to sit in some hot springs.
Anita Briem
#82. At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing.
Jerry Della Femina
#83. It takes a lot of work to do this every day, every day, but I feel, as a sheriff, I should get to know my people. I serve them. They don't serve me. I serve them. They're my bosses, and the more people I can see and talk to, I love it.
Joe Arpaio
#84. Ever since I came to the WWE four years ago, there's been one home for Rey Mysterio. SmackDown! In this ring, in this very ring is where I won the World Title. This is my home. These are my people.
Oscar Gutierrez
#85. These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.
Amaury Nolasco
#86. These were people ... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.
Rick Bragg
#87. Until you will stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight. We are at war, and I am a soldier and now you too will taste the reality of this situation.
Mohamed Khan
#88. Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors ... Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Andrew Carnegie
#89. There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong.
That's not totally true ... I know I belong with Alex.
Lauren Oliver
#92. If death be the last thing I do, why, I pray the gods and heroes of my people that I try to do it as well as I have done more pleasant things.
Alice Borchardt
#93. Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
Martin Luther
#94. The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them.
Anasazi Foundation
#95. The way I work with my people is totally different. I never wanted to compare myself, in a healthy way to Jillian [Michaels] because she did what she did, and I respect that. Now I want to do what I do.
Jessie Pavelka
#96. My people have a legend of the Dayslayer. It says that Artemis chose one of our own to be her personal guard. More beloved than any of her people, the Dayslayer has no known vulnerability. Once he's unleashed, his goal is destroy Dark-Hunters. (Spawn) So you're telling me he's the Bogeyman? (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#97. For seven hundred years, my people have been enslaved without voice, without hope. Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.
Pierce Brown
#98. See? Instead of thinking of a way to help my people, all I can think of is the smell of your hair and that small dimple on your cheek when you smile. (Victor)
A.B. Whelan
#99. Typographers are designers; designers are my people.
Robin Sloan
#100. My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
