Maya Angelou Quotes
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.Maya Angelou
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
J. R. Martinez -
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Malcolm Forbes -
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Zhuangzi -
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
Zadie Smith -
Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
Tablo -
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
Barack Obama -
I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
Rachel Kushner -
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Jack Black -
May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
Otto Wallach -
Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
Larry J. Sabato -
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy Pausch
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
Zoe Wanamaker -
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
Mahmoud Darwish -
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce -
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
Walter Kirn -
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
Barney Frank -
I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
T.I.
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I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do.
Penny Marshall -
Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.
Francoise Gilot -
Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.
David Cronenberg -
The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
Iain Sinclair -
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou