Friday, 21 October 2016

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet - Maya Angelou


  • A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song
    • Although it appears on U.S. postage featuring Angelou, this is actually a variant quote from the work of poet Joan Walsh Anglund[1]
  • There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
    • This is actually from Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks On the Road, though it is widely attributed to Ms. Angelou's book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    • Nearly identical quote attributed to a 1995 TV show, Touched by an Angel : Tess: No, hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it's never solved one yet.
  • People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
    • This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263,

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