The writer Julian Mayfield called Angelou's book "a work of art which eludes description because the black aesthetic — another way of saying 'the black experience' — has too long been neglected to be formalized by weary clichés".
Their experiences have too long been considered the default, standard experiences that can represent all of a culture's experiences in print, but there is no reason a woman or minority can't also be the kind of quintessentially American figure who evinces our country's optimism, individualism, and quixotic idealism.
They were the more meaningful to me because they merged with the joy I had experienced not too long before when I had seen a little sign in Kirstenbosch Gardens pointing to where I wanted to go: Amy and Jean's wedding reception.
I experienced going too long in a small way when I once forgot to schedule a dental check-up for more than two years.
Patients' satisfaction with treatment was sufficient and comparable in both groups, although the time spent on sensory retraining in the MMT group was experienced as too long by some patients (see Additional files 4 and 5).
We became friends for many reasons – but perhaps one of the most striking connections is the mutual experience of yearning too long for a country built through the memories and idealised pictures painted by our parents.
People getting ahead of themselves have forgotten or never experienced how not too long ago, a seven-game Knicks playoff series against Miami, Chicago or Indiana could seize hold of the city, to the extreme of forestalling the daily obsession with the Yankees.
But, just like an ingrown hair or slack stomach, trying to keep your psychological quirks or past experiences hidden for too long will almost certainly cause them to roar up like an inferno when you, and your partner, least expect it.
This is done by creating safe and healthy environments and through healing the open wounds that broken communities and broken people have experienced for entirely too long.
Too much is made of her lack of sexual experience; the author lingers too long over suggestive phrases from Fuller's writing like "earthly union" and "mutual tenderness" and "full communion".
