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• Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. -- Maya Angelou
• Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
  -- Maya Angelou, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", 1969...
• The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
  -- Maya Angelou...
• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -- Maya Angelou
• For Africa to me . . . is more than a glamorous fact.
  It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place....
• There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. -- Maya Angelou
• It is Maya! Dost thou not know her? Illusion -- dreams -- phantoms.
  But, to the wise, Maya is more. ------------------ But, to the wise, Maya is more....
• If ignorance isn't bliss, I don't know what is.
• I know from long experience that my men have all the artistic talent of a cluster of colourblind hedgehogs.
  ..in a _bag_. -- Edmund to Melchett : Captain Cook...