Maya Angelou Quotes

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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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People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

Joel Edgerton

BadDictatorsNo-OneExceptReally

Just being out in the world gives me ideas.

Michael Bastian

MeIdeasWorldOutBeingJust

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

Shirley Manson

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Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

Michael Leunig

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Dinah had all the class.

Lorna Luft

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Being attorney general has truly allowed me to be a voice for justice for the people of Illinois and oftentimes the country - and I love it.

Lisa Madigan

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I think all actors have addictive personalities.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

Douglas Hodge

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Seth Rollins is one of the hardest-working wrestlers I've ever seen.

Bret Hart

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This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

Bradley Whitford

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Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.

Anne Graham Lotz

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