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Maya Angelou Quotes

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014

Topics

Future Past Present Burden Prejudice

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mind Limits Will Human Human Mind

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.

God People Society Think Talking

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

Writing Questions Doing Survival

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

Stephen Hawking

Work Science Universe Early Predict

On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message.

Stephen Schwartz

Positive Great Book Sweetness Mormon

I love Cleveland; I'll always want to fight there. But there's a lot going on in New York. I'd like to go somewhere I'm not known as well.

Love Fight New York Go New Want

Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I'm a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make people laugh, so writing comedy comes naturally to me.

Funny Love People Me Writing Laugh

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

Success Business Children Time Start

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

People Conflict Process You Try

Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle.

Interesting Gay Lifestyle Whatever

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Slavery Invention Acknowledgement

To have the ability to look back on the problems that weren't big problems after all is something I think we can all learn from.

Colleen Ballinger

Problems Think Learn Look Back Big

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