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Maya Angelou Quotes

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Poetry Listening Know Sometimes

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Free Results Election Accept Fraud

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

Michael Gambon

Child Me Thought Restaurant Approach

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

Michael Connelly

Quality Believe Think Anything Lacks

I'm always going to be heavy in producing. It's always going to come first. It never can't come first.

Metro Boomin

Never First Always Going Heavy Come

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

Amy Klobuchar

Fame Now Twice Order Claim Guess

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

God Sea Water Trust Death Storm

I thought food and drink were just part of the perks of living at the White House. The next day, I got a call from his secretary saying my dad wanted to see me in the Oval Office, and when I got there, dad was waving this little pink receipt. I didn't know it came out of his salary.

Steven Ford

Food Day Me Saying Pink Thought

We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.

Tony Dungy

Best Together Talent Team Down

I want to be in shape.

Rosie Perez

Want Shape

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.

Dinaw Mengestu

Work Learning Great Time Me Better

Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.

Chris Hadfield

Good Space Flying You Place Out

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

Brian Grazer

Respect School Law Think Thought Go