I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.
Maya AngelouThe intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.
Maya AngelouYou don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
Maya AngelouFood served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.
Maya Angelou