"Language. I loved it. And for a long……" — Maya Angelou

"Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear."

— Maya Angelou

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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou has 760 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love…
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go…
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able…
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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