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• Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
  -- Maya Angelou, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing...
• 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
• There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. -- 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...
• Talent on loan from God.
• 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....
• With talent on loan from a cesspool, it's you!
• With talent on loan from a pawnshop, it's you!