Maya Angelou Quotes
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
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Author Details:
Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
American Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 4, 1928
Nationality:
American
Amazon:
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Related Authors:
Ogden Nash
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Langston Hughes
T. S. Eliot
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Select Maya Angelou Quotations:
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou
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Quote Keywords:

Brain,
Goes,
Hear,
Heart,
Idea,
Slides,
Straight,
Through,
Write
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Dictionary Links:

Brain,
Hear,
Heart,
Idea,
Straight,
Through,
Write
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All Maya Angelou Quotations:
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
All great achievements require time.
All men are prepared to accomplish...
Any book that helps a child...
As far as I knew white...
At fifteen life had taught me...
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats...
Children's talent to endure stems from...
Courage is the most important of...
Effective action is always unjust.
For Africa to me... is more...
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot...
How important it is for us...
I believe that every person is...
I believe we are still so...
I have found that among its...
I long, as does every human...
I love to see a young...
I've learned that people will forget...
I've learned that you shouldn't go...
If one is lucky, a solitary...
If we lose love and self...
If you don't like something, change...
If you find it in your...
If you have only one smile...
It is time for parents to...
Life loves the liver of it.
Life loves to be taken by...
Love is like a virus. It...
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps...
Most plain girls are virtuous because...
Music was my refuge. I could...
My great hope is to laugh...
My life has been one great...
My mother said I must always...
Nothing will work unless you do.
One isn't necessarily born with courage...
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by...
Prejudice is a burden that confuses...
Self-pity in its early stages...
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou...
The ache for home lives in...
The fact that the adult American...
The idea is to write it...
The need for change bulldozed road...
The sadness of the women's movement...
There is a very fine line...
There is no greater agony than...
There is nothing so pitiful as...
There's a world of difference between...
We allow our ignorance to prevail...
We may encounter many defeats but...
While I know myself as a...
While the rest of the world...
Words mean more than what is...
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