Maya Angelou Quotes

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

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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Actually, before 'Super 8,' I didn't even have a game console. But now I do. For a kickoff for 'Super 8,' they gave us all brand new PlayStation 3s.

Joel Courtney

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I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.

Amy J. Berg

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I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don't know the proper way to say a lot of things, even though I know what they are. But then I know I look like a moron.

Amy Heckerling

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The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.

Trevor Paglen

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We take five, one-week vacations a year, and those dates are set in stone.

Tom Joyner

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Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

Robin S. Sharma

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Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Rod Stewart

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Your heart is very much connected to your mind.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.

Mitch Leigh

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It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

Joyce Carol Oates

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There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

Jason Chaffetz

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Not every great idea needs to be Campbell-generated. It's clear that partners and vendors and other external sources will generate innovative ideas for us.

Denise Morrison

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