"I love a Hebrew National hot dog..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.”

“Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.”

“...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.”

“It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.”

“I woke up this morning,Smiled at the rising sun,Three little birds,Sat on my doorstep,Singing sweet songs”

“Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?”

“....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.”

“I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy”

“Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.”