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Maya Angelou Quotes

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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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Time Best I Am Me Doors Person

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

Jim Hodges

People Color Think Young Reaction

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

Joanna Lumley

Mother Joy Grandmother Normal Relief

Sad to say, negative advertising really works.

Jerry Della Femina

Sad Advertising Negative Say Works

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

John Masefield

Man Want Praise May Something Made

You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.

Ruth Reichl

People You Know Want Something Give

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.

Michael Specter

Fishing People Village Special First

One minute, I really am in awe of filmmakers, and I want to be working in film, and then the next minute, I get the itch to get back on stage.

Julia Stiles

Back Want Awe Next Stage Film

I think it's our job as writers for Marvel Comics to continue to create those type of stories that can be mined instead of just trying to give readers exactly what they see on film.

Jason Aaron

Job Think Trying Create See Film

Whether it be through television, or through music, or through dance, or through film, whatever it is, as long as it's the right project that makes sense, then I'm all for it.

Derek Hough

Music Dance Long Television Project

That says it all. When you say, 'Victory,' that says it all.

Drew Brees

Victory You Say Says

Unexpectedly, I'm here now, so I need to let all the U.S. marketers know that Asians are not different. We are all the same.