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Maya Angelou Quotes

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Good Music Best Poetry Black Find

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Black Who Read Souls Folk Wrote

London has a very specific kind of style; it's very different to Milan, Paris, and New York. It's nice having that personality that we haven't lost. It's the English quirky style that people like to see when they come to Fashion Week.

Matthew Williamson

Style Personality New York People

Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.

Internet Phone Rule Controlling Any

I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K. I started performing from then, really.

Poetry Writing Christian Passionate

I've dreamed about going to the Olympics ever since I was young.

Young Going About Since Ever

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

Miroslav Lajcak

Violence More Cost Just Far Easier

I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

Passionate Casual Seem Only Readers

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

Day Generation Fighting Every Day

We are increasingly using social media to drive both engagement and commerce. And because we are a commerce platform that integrates content, we believe we have a unique opportunity to make up a high button, a relative factor in social.

Opportunity Social Media Drive Media

We are using both visual biomarkers, MRI and a panel of blood and tissue testing including work on telomere length with Spectracell and Life Length and epigenetic testing.

Life Work Blood Testing Visual Both

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Writing Trouble Know Writer Every

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

Success Time Step Me Outside Right

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