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Write Quotes by Maya Angelou
- The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
- Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
- I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
- When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
- 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 liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother,…
- I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for…
- I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I…
- 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…
- I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The…
- Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write…
- To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
- ...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the…
- When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It…
- If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to…
- We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within…
- Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the…
- When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
- You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object…
- I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
- I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
- It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to…
- What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart.…
- You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll…
- What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’....…
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