Maya Angelou Quotes

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

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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While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.

Steve Jurvetson

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My stepmother wanted to be an actress.

Ruby Dee

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I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.

Mary Tyler Moore

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I have stood on the shoulders of giants like Billie Jean King, Hillary Clinton, my mother - people who have really empowered and influenced my life in an incredible way.

Michelle Kwan

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Because I didn't have much money, I bought a small shop that fit my budget. The previous six owners had closed their business in three years. The store had no people traffic and, because of that, I was able to focus on figuring out how to provide a better service to each and every one of the customers that did come through.

Do Won Chang

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Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.

Diane von Furstenberg

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One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers to communication. Things like status, geopolitics and so on keep people from talking to one another. Those go away in Twitter. You see exchanges that would never happen anywhere else.

Dick Costolo

CommunicationPeopleMeTalkingYou

I'm always searching to learn more about our large and diverse country.

Debra Granik

Nobody wants to sell their child, but what they wind up doing is selling their child to be able to support their family.

Cindy McCain

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I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.

Bonnie Tyler

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I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

Boris Becker

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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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