{"author":"Maya Angelou","author_id":"Maya+Angelou","total_quotes":282,"quotes":[{"text":"I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["work","start","bible "],"id":1119,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"},{"text":"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["courage","pain","need "],"id":1412,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"},{"text":"That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["christianity","inspirational"],"id":3585,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"},{"text":"I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["laughter","sense-of-humor"],"id":7299,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"},{"text":"I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["humanity"],"id":8435,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"},{"text":"I want you to write down your blessings.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["insight"],"id":8437,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"},{"text":"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["myself","long","human "],"id":9152,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"},{"text":"As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["healing"],"id":9386,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"},{"text":"Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["small things","yourself "],"id":9579,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"},{"text":"The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["acceptance","comfort","home","protection","safety","security"],"id":15017,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":282,"pages":29,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}