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Maya Angelou Quotes

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Hope Heart People Hands Poet Ought

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

Wife Death People Me Holiday Know

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Bullying Fight Fighting You Lose

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

History Mind Opinion Study Necessary

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

Truth Myself Eye Think Language

If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.

Beach Woman You Find Know Want

With these big Wagner pieces, if I haven't started three years before, I'm screwed. You need time to look at the piece again and again and again, and then, like some fantastic casserole or spaghetti sauce, put it back in the fridge and let the flavours get together.

Time Together Get Together You Look

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

Time First Time First Working Idea

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform.

Kind Comfortable Become Bricks Some

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

Lorraine Bracco

Good Mother Think Thought Look More

If I spend time at the front of the process worrying about connecting themes, then I won't write the best songs.

Time Best Process Write Connecting

There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've got lots of others, but I won't use them because I just don't like... the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn't right.

Cornelia Parker

Coffee Feel Too Much Hand Way Right

If we believe that a person seeking refuge is to be pitied, feared, despised, and looked down upon, we are doing ourselves a disservice.

Clemantine Wamariya

Believe Doing Down Person Refuge

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