But now she went on, "That's just barely conceivable, just about one chance in a million, and so long as there if that chance, so long as we don't absolutely know to the contrary, I'm not going to dismiss the possibility entirely from my mind.
"We don't absolutely know what they are, but we're pretty sure what they're not," he notes.
Three-year-old Maya's parents decide to "put an end to their calamitous marriage", and so she and her four-year-old brother Bailey are sent to stay with their grandmother (soon known as Momma) in the town of Stamps, Arkansas, where "segregation was so complete most black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like".
When she was 3 and her brother, Bailey, was 4, her parents split up and her father sent them to live with his mother in Stamps, Ark., a "musty little town" that was so segregated, Angelou wrote, that "most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like".
By showing us how a man looks when his head is chopped off, a movie can capture our shocked attention for a second or two, but it has said very little about the nature of man we didn't already know, and absolutely nothing about the nature of the poor man who was the victim -- except that he died, violently.
"On the few occasions I've been able to let him know something that he didn't know, he's absolutely delighted.
This color scheme is something she absolutely loved but didn't really know how to implement.
The first time we toured the States, we had absolutely no money and didn't really know anybody who could put us up.
"Some of it I knew, some of it I suspected, some of it I absolutely didn't know, and when I write my book, I'll explain which is which," he said with a chuckle.
Don't do stuff you absolutely know is wrong in the first place.
