Maya Angelou Quotes

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

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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I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Max Cannon

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I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine.

Amanda Seyfried

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I was on the school bus telling Richard Pryor jokes. I was sneaking, listening to Richard Pryor albums and would go to school the next day, tell all the jokes, and get in trouble because I was cursing.

Tony Rock

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I was a weird kid. It wasn't until I saw 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' at 16 that my whole world changed. The obsession with that was equal to the obsession with writing.

Luke Davies

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Themes don't change very much in story telling, and I think each writer has his or her own territory; however, I think craft and style take a lot of time to develop. I don't think there's any other way to develop your own style without reading your betters.

Min Jin Lee

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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Luc de Clapiers

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When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.

Dianne Reeves

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There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.

Chris Cornell

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After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.

David Thewlis

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I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

Boyd Rice

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Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

William Throsby Bridges

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As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.

Suriya

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