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Maya Angelou

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MAYA ANGELOU Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words h...
ZHUANGZI Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE It gives the physical poses a deeper meaning, which gives them the power to really create a shift wi...
DARREN RHODES You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - i...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccess...
MAYA ANGELOU The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energet...
VACLAV HAVEL The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energe...
VACLAV HAVEL I feel very honored that I got a chance to work with Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey.
STANLEY CLARKE From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how...
DIRK BENEDICT Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing ...
NANCY ARROYO RUFFIN Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations. [We] se...
HARRY S TRUMAN Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and k...
MAYA ANGELOU Maya Angelou is a very prolific writer. You can read her stuff down once and sort of walk away, but ...
STANLEY CLARKE While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
MAYA ANGELOU The kindnesses … I never forget them. And so they keep one from becoming bitter. They encourage yo...
JEFFREY M. ELLIOT I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable...
MICHAEL SHEEN If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain...
MAYA ANGELOU Maya Angelo...
LENNIE GOODINGS Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural he...
MAYA ANGELOU Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its desti...
JOY LINCOLN Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagin...
JASPER FFORDE Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hear...
DONNA BRAZILE I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than tha...
ANNE FRANK I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says...
MAYA ANGELOU Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
UNSOURCED, MISATTRIBUTED TO MAYA ANGELOU Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into your...
SEAMUS HEANEY Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a na...
MAYA ANGELOU Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable m...
LES BROWN Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.
MATT BOMER It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. Sometimes it takes time for the words to become more than word...
ELIE WIESEL It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
ROBERT SOUTHEY It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
ROBERT SOUTHEY It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
ROBERT SOUTHEY It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn
ROBERT SOUTHEY Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is m...
ELIE WIESEL It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the st...
MARK BATTERSON Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, po...
MAYA ANGELOU Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
MAYA ANGELOU Soft you day, be velvet soft,
My true love approaches,
Look you bright, you dusty sun, <...
MAYA ANGELOU It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you ...
DOROTHEA DIX Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss mean...
JOHN SCALZI Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discrimin...
WALTER PATER In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
MASON COOLEY I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La S...
MAYA ANGELOU The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health has a national conference every other year. This...
MAYA ANGELOU She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performi...
CARRE OTIS Words never mean what we want them to mean.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you me...
RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances t...
KATE SMITH Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really m...
MARY J. BLIGE 'The best place to vent out your anger is to write it down on a piece of paper because written words...
SHIVANGI PANDEY Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...
MAYA ANGELOU Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, crea...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, go...
PAUL GAUGUIN A thing about poetry is, It takes cuts and pain to bleed words. The deeper the wound is, the more yo...
AKSHAY VASU Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO They were more concerned with saving life than putting it on paper.
JOE BALISTRERI The weight of your words is more important than the volume of your voice!
MANPRIT KAUR It takes longer to put them up than it does to take them down.
AL GASKIN A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Try to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what ...
C. S. LEWIS Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue...
PAUL GAUGUIN You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Opr...
OPRAH WINFREY Christianity is more than a theory about the universe, more than teachings written down on paper; it...
KALLISTOS WARE If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the...
JOHN DRYDEN I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there's so many words and they get so...
CAROLEE DEAN The government's approach must be more than a paper exercise couched in warm words,
DAVID FROST but I am also a lot more that words cant say. words cant convey my voice, or my touch, words only pa...
JOHNNY MORPHINE It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are conden...
ROBERT SOUTHEY If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condense...
ROBERT SOUTHEY If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condens...
ROBERT SOUTHEY If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condense...
ROBERT SOUTHEY There was something about him that drove the shyness out of you, a kind of understanding that went d...
ARTHUR GORDON Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS I actually think it's harder to write a song than poetry. I try to pick words that sound lyrical and...
DAVID HAZEL I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It...
ISIDOR ISAAC RABI Complexity looks at simplicity and laughs at it for being too simple. But this is stupidity. Which i...
C. JOYBELL C. I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou s...
FRED SAVAGE A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL That's the $64-billion question. We know what it takes, and the panthers are more than willing to br...
DARRELL LAND The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS it takes more than just words to hurt me unless they happen to be particularly truthful words strung...
RANA MAGDY The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around...
GUY JOHNSON It takes courage to dream, to face our futures and the limiting forces within us. It takes courage t...
BUD HARRIS ... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean h...
TERRY EAGLETON Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. ...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN There is no wealth, she went on, turning paler as she watched him, while her eyes grew yet more lust...
CHARLES DICKENS

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MAYA ANGELOU The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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MAYA ANGELOU I got my own back.
MAYA ANGELOU If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will a...
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MAYA ANGELOU I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
MAYA ANGELOU Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. Y...
MAYA ANGELOU We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, ac...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a...
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MAYA ANGELOU My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...
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MAYA ANGELOU Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin...
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MAYA ANGELOU You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else...
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MAYA ANGELOU Nothing will work unless you do.
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MAYA ANGELOU If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth...
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MAYA ANGELOU We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just ...
MAYA ANGELOU The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
MAYA ANGELOU When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
MAYA ANGELOU Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
MAYA ANGELOU Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
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MAYA ANGELOU We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achie...
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rocks on distant hills shudder,
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MAYA ANGELOU Life loves the liver of it.
MAYA ANGELOU A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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MAYA ANGELOU ...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
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MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
MAYA ANGELOU We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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