“I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in K…”

“I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, "You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth."”

— Maya Angelou

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Title: Wikiquote: Maya Angelou
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Context

quoted in Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers by Phaidon (2018) with citation

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Angelou, Maya. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Maya Angelou. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou

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