Maya Angelou Quotes

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

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The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

Robert Burns

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The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith.

Ronnie Musgrove

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Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

Ronnie James Dio

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Many people think children must have chips. I don't think any household should have a deep fat fryer.

Mary Berry

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I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I've been worn out.

Mirko Cro Cop

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The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.

Donald A. Wollheim

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George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.

Alice Ripley

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I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.

Sebastian Lelio

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In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

Tim Heidecker

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If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.

Liam Cunningham

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I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

Ken Bruen

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