Reading Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings

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"Would it help if I said he had it coming? — Richard Castle

Spring came early that year and the sweet warm nights made her restless. She walked up and down the streets and through the park. And wherever she went, she saw a boy and a girl together; walking arm-in-arm, sitting on a park bench with their arms around each other, standing closely and in silence in a vestibule. Everyone in the world but Francie had a sweetheart or a friend. She seemed to be the only lonely one in Brooklyn. — Betty Smith

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. — Maya Angelou

Creativity should be an everyday experience. Creativity should be as common as breathing. We breathe, therefore we create. — Erwin Raphael McManus

To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist. — Maya Angelou

Moisture, moisture, moisture is the key to maintaining our hair. I use water-based products and try to put something on my hair every day. I pay special attention to my edges, as they are so fragile. — Erica Ash

One of the biggest issues with renewables right now is the fact that if the wind isn't blowing, if the sun isn't shining, we don't have energy. Many people are working on storage technology so when the wind isn't blowing, we can use the energy stored in our giant batteries, essentially. But what happens if we don't have enough stored energy? — Katharine Hayhoe

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. — Peter Kreeft

Remember not to complain about the matter but construct, compose, compass and conquer the matter — Ikechukwu Joseph

Negativity is a sucking whirlpool of piss. — Steve Bivans

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues. — Benjamin Graham

I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more you know them and the more you go through together. Being married is definitely better than it's cracked up to be I think. — Emily Mortimer

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. — Maya Angelou

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. — Maya Angelou

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. — Maya Angelou

Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror. — Lois Lowry