Poet

Jika kau tak menyukai sesuatu, ubahlah hal tersebut. Bila tak bisa mengubahnya, ubahlah sikapmu. Jangan mengeluh.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

Aku berjanji pada diriku untuk menulis sebaik mungkin, mengatakan yang sesungguhnya. Aku tidak mengatakan semuanya, tapi aku mengatakan hal yang aku mengerti itu benar. Aku menggunakan kemampuanku untuk berkata-kata.

Saya percaya bahwa setiap orang dilahirkan dengan bakat.

Dari semua kebutuhan (tidak ada khayalan) yang dimiliki seorang anak yang kesepian, yang harus dipenuhi, jika akan ada harapan dan harapan keutuhan, adalah kebutuhan yang tak tergoyahkan akan Tuhan yang tak tergoyahkan.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

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