Maya Angelou Quotes

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RespectMyselfBecauseEverybodyToo

You will find my last words in the blue folder.

Max Beerbohm

WordsBlueYouFindWillLast

One of the fun things about wrestling is that you can do a move and leave your stamp on the business forever.

Matt Hardy

BusinessFunYouWrestlingLeave

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

Soledad O'Brien

MyselfThinkI ThinkJournalist

Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.

Rodney Crowell

CreativeComfortableWriteEndeavor

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Martin Scorsese

OpportunityFreedomExperienceChance

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

Michael Phelps

MyselfPoolYearsNormalSomething

The Internet is a worldwide platform for sharing information. It is a community of common interests. No country is immune to such global challenges as cybercrime, hacking, and invasion of privacy.

Lu Wei

CommunityChallengesInternetPrivacy

If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do.

Jason Moran

SpaceRiverYouPlayKnowRun

When I moved to Los Angeles, right away I met all kinds of musicians.

Dianne Reeves

MusiciansLos AngelesRightAwayMet

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

Demian Bichir

AngelDevilTwoThingsCapacity

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

Chely Wright

SimpleCityMeBelieveBornKansas

I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.

Chris Ofili

I AmBlackImportantEmbarrassedAm

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