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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
American Poet
Born: Apr 4, 1928
Died: May 28, 2014
Life Love Me People Time You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman E. E. Cummings
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race. Maya Angelou
People Important Down Neighbor Know Another Very Door Race Next Next Door Street
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. Maya Angelou
You Generation Think Enough I Think Count Leaders Like Understand Hip-Hop Wonders Whether Them Number
I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment. Maya Angelou
Myself Seriously Too Enough I Can Take Leave Very Want Next Means Moment Serious
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve. Maya Angelou
Life Good I Am Mother Citizen Feeling Sister Energy Good Mother Nerve Involved Make Am Lot Friend Itself Very Good Citizen Good Friend
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. Maya Angelou
Dreams Me Musicians I Am Made Rich Diminished Weakened Poets Writers Excitement Saddened Come Ideas Am Younger Then Full Less Painters Funds
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. Maya Angelou
Work Saying I Am Better Stronger Lyrics Alike Ourselves All My Work I Write More Poetry Imperative Write Allow Prose Am Encounter Than Essays May Human Maybe Human Beings Movies Much Many Appear Beings Defeats
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed. Maya Angelou
I Am Care Own Defense Enough Our Ourselves Must Able Never Participate Come Know Ready Proud Am Wherever Us Each Violence Needed
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. Maya Angelou
Life Drops Soon Learned Affectation Wall Person Against Modest Modest Person Modesty
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first. Maya Angelou
Life Saying Time You Will Somebody First Own Say Take Hear Heard Listener Want Might Then Your Actually Save
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition. Maya Angelou
Experience Speak I Am Black About Talking Always Am Condition Human Human Condition
I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing. Maya Angelou
Jealous Me Writing Few Married Husbands Times
If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things. Maya Angelou
Me You Queen Mother President States Dare Would Would-Be More Could Protective Sort Were Than Person Which Really Meant England Who United United States Things
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind. Maya Angelou
Mind Think Say Only Autobiographical Fiction Happened Such A Thing Even Thing
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. Maya Angelou
Life Me Surrender Honorable No Choice Had Taught Place Fifteen Choice Resistance
If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity. Maya Angelou
You Human Being Other More Attempt Talent Understand Than Any Done Human Being Human Beings Electricity Beings
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses. Maya Angelou
You Respect Sense Once Seeing Touching Blessings Learn Hearing Begin Tasting Senses Then Your Appreciate
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 Man Quality Humanity World Rest Ghana Has-Been Been Improving While
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly. Maya Angelou
Dreams Me Care Fly Wildest Wildest Dreams Take Never Take Care Picket Knew Like House Fence Yearning Yearnings June Expected Wanted Anyone Movies Juvenile
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. 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. Maya Angelou
Beautiful Myself Bible Wonderful Language Translation Christian Musical Take Remind Aloud Read Edition How Hear Any Just Rhythm Translations English Interpretations
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.' Maya Angelou
Home You Angel Thomas Everything Chapters Brother Look Wrote Read Go Go Home Again Whole Ever
The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly. Maya Angelou
White White House Action President Birth Gave Obama Directly Indirectly Entry House Terrorist
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do. Maya Angelou
Together Few Joan Adjectives Throw Take Put Bounce Make Ball Up Norman Norman Mailer Wall Did James Against Mean Them Noun
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem. Maya Angelou
You Sometimes Mind Approaching Situation Think Keys Say Ways Those Runs See About Fingers Poem Pianist Write Over Like May Being Different Want Then Search Now Different Ways Her Two
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it. Maya Angelou
Hope Music Me You Song Dance Somebody Country Incredible I Write Some Poem Beat Write Country Music Going
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side. Maya Angelou
Health Woman Fool Women Own Side Darn My Own Because Interested
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. Maya Angelou
Ignorance Stems Talent Alternatives Children Endure
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