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Quotes from Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers by Phaidon — Maya Angelou

1928–2014 United States

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I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, "You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth."

Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers by Phaidon (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maya Angelou (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.