Trying Not to Grit My Teeth . . .

From an interview with Maya Angelou by Brian Lanker from the book I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America

I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden that goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. The brutes, the bigots, the batterers and the bastards are also children of God. And that's where the onerous burden comes in for me, as a practicing Christian, to try to keep that in mind and not grit my teeth until they break off into little stubs.