Maya Angelou Quotes About Listening

• I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Communication, Writing

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

• Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

  Maya Angelou

  Growing Up, Grandmother, Italian

  Source: www.azcentral.com

• I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, People, Black

• Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

  Maya Angelou

  Song, Listening, Sometimes

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