Carolina QuotesI can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick. (1977)
Maya Angelou Connected to the Carolinas
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- Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)
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- 1989
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