Iām grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love ā for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. Iām grateful to know that it exists.
Maya AngelouTo take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.
Maya Angelou