Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 41

• When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60.

  Maya Angelou

  Sunset, I Love Him, Loving Someone

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.

  Maya Angelou

  Appreciation, Children, School

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

  Maya Angelou

  Memories, Good Memories

  "1950s 'Porgy and Bess' Castmember Maya Angelou Reflects On Production's Significance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.

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• I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

  Maya Angelou

  Modesty, Stuck Up, Stuck

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

  Maya Angelou

  Glasses, Half Empty, Negative

  Source: blues.gr

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• If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

  Maya Angelou

  War, Mean, Long

  Source: blues.gr

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• The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, "You're not finished with me yet," and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, May, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

  Maya Angelou

  Fashion, Attitude, Who I Am

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Giving, Patient

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• Whining is just unbecoming.

  Maya Angelou

  Whining, Unbecoming

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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