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Maya Angelou Quotes
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Source:
A Conversation between Rosa Guy and Maya Angelou (1988), Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989), Page 220
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Maya Angelou
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Poet, Activist
Born:
April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014
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