Maya Angelou Quotes

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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AloneHappyLibraryYouInformation

I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.

Jill McCorkle

GodMeAngelStoryYouSay

There are problems in doing television that have been plaguing me for years. I really like to have a lot of time, to rehearse and make things as good as they can be, but television often doesn't allow for that.

Joel Grey

GoodTimeMeProblemsDoingYears

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

John David Washington

LoveLanguageOldYearsGotFour

If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.

Michael A. Stackpole

WorkSomeoneProfitNeedEarnGoing

All I do is fight, consistently, the best guys in the world, and sure, I've lost a couple here and there, but I've certainly won the majority of my fights. There are those who pick and choose opponents and try to pad their record along the way, but I've never done that.

Michael Bisping

BestFightWorldChooseLostDone

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

Steve Martin

PastAmericanSomethingBanjoOur

In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.

Ron Ben-Israel

BirthdayMomentCakeYouBarBig

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

Martin Scorsese

WishI WishEverythingCould

I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.

Chris Van Allsburg

ThinkForgetDifficultThings

I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.

Brad Anderson

StorySomethingMightFactFamiliar

I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.

Playboi Carti

MusicKnowMy OwnOwnGotGoing

Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

Sheena Iyengar

SchoolMeMomChoicesAmericanSaid

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