Marguerite “Maya” Johnson quotes
A character in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
28 quotes spoken by or about Marguerite “Maya” Johnson, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book. Page 2 of 2.
About Maya Angelou
Sympathy is next to shit in the dictionary, and I can't even read.
Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being “called out of his name.”
And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.
The Friday Letter
One story from the atlas, every Friday.
No algorithms chasing attention. A work, a place, and the connection between them — with the history checked.