Maya Angelou quotes - page 14

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. (Maya Angelou)
Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication. View quote
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. View quote
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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me. View quote
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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. View quote
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. View quote
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely. View quote
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I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them. View quote
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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart. View quote
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading. View quote
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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. (Maya Angelou)
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich. View quote
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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.' View quote
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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. View quote
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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. View quote
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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything. View quote
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely. View quote
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place. View quote
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. View quote
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. View quote
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. (Maya Angelou)
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. View quote
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. View quote
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. View quote
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. View quote
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