Maya Angelou Quotes
It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Quotes to Explore
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like it's like my soul squeezing out of my vocal chords. I don't sit there and think about 'I'm gonna do this next...' I just sing. I sing from my heart, and my heart's got a little lonesome in it.
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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
