"Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon."

-- Maya Angelou

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“Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.”

Source : Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books
“I'm trying to find peace in the world, as it is. I'm feeling this sort of slow stripping of my mind, like the layers of an onion. I'm starting to see through all these little structures that have been imposed on me by my society that tell me how I'm supposed to view my life and the world. What I'm supposed to find to be important and what is not. Sometimes you see through so much of it that you feel like you're just a leaf blowing on the wind.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“And I had to get out of hating range.”
“You have moments where you do appearances and people recognize you and you get fan letters, but that's after you've put in long days rehearsing, filming and for us kids - going to school on the set.”
“You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.”

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“The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul.”

Source : Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company
“Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.”
“Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichÃ©s, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.”

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