"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
― Maya Angelou
Topic(s): Anger
More From Maya Angelou
- "As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."
- "One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
- "If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."
More In Anger
- "I’ve learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration."― Emmitt Smith
- "The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."― Barbara de Angelis
- "Men make angry music and it’s called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they’re angry and militant."― Ani DiFranco