Maya Angelou Quotes

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

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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That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.

Robert Jay Lifton

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Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.

Robert Kurson

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Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

Rodman Philbrick

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I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.

Jazz Jennings

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Free migration within Europe means that countries that have done a better job at reducing unemployment will predictably end up with more than their fair share of refugees. Workers in these countries bear the cost in depressed wages and higher unemployment, while employers benefit from cheaper labor.

Joseph Stiglitz

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As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

Jonas Gahr Store

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I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

Dennis Rodman

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Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

Derek Bailey

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I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

Douglas Tompkins

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It was like I was Hannah Montana! I was a normal girl from Pittsburgh one minute and then a pop star the next!

Daya

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I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

Bridget Moynahan

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This is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.

Wong Kar-wai

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