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Story Quotes by Maya Angelou
- There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've…
- Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to…
- I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
- When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be…
- The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...
- A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he…
- There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you..
More Story Quotes
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
- Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action… — Jensen Ackles