Carolina QuotesThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou Connected to the Carolinas
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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.
misattributed
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story insid…” Maya Angelou. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-1DB304ABEB. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/1db304abeb
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
Years ago I read a man named Machado de Assis who wrote a book called Dom Casmurro. Machado de Assis is a South American writer — black father, Portuguese mother — writing in 1865, say. I thought the book was very nice. Then I went back and read the book and said, Hmm. I didn’t realize all that was in that book. Then I read it again, and again, and I came to the conclusion that what Machado de Assis had done for me was almost a trick: he had beckoned me onto the beach to watch a sunset. And I had watched the sunset with pleasure. When I turned around to come back in I found that the tide had come in over my head. That’s when I decided to write.
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