“Yes. When I’m writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we’re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.”

—  Maya Angelou

Paris Review Interview (1990)

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American author and poet 1928–2014

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