Maya Angelou Quotes About Truth

• For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Truth, Men

  1972 On Africa. In the New York Times,16 Apr.

• There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

• This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2010

• A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Morning, Truth

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.423, Modern Library

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