Maya Angelou Quotes
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.
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Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I like children - fried.
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
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I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.
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I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
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Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
