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Maya Angelou Quotes

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry River Sometimes Worst Right

If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.

Food Birds Building American Help

When I was a kid, I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year. I refused to step out of the door because I thought something would happen. I had all these compulsive thoughts or whatever, and my head was really messed up.

Life Step Door Thoughts Thought Go

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

Opportunity Environmental Economic

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Staughton Lynd

History Poetry Literature You Drama

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

Always Days Being Idea Youngest

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

Age World Credit Miracle Order Gain

I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be.

Music Choose Mood Always Whatever

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

Robin Van Persie

Work Team Learn Look Way More

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

Family Democracy Learn Doing Go

We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now.

Lukas Forchhammer

Free Saying Now Take Advantage Take

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Look Village London Outsider Sense

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

Believe America Will Nation Attack

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