From Maya Angelou via Russell at The Cultural Hall:
“If you are not angry then you are a stone. You should be angry. But you should not be bitter. Bitterness is like a cancer. It feeds on the host and doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it, you paint it, you dance it, you march it, you vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. You never stop talking!”
I love this. I think i’m going to steal it for my blog.
i think anger gets short shrift. i’m of a mind that anger can be a gift. it shouldn’t be used to hurt others or ourselves but it can move us to work to improve the world around us. you probably wouldn’t know it, but i’m angry most of the time about something (poverty, corruption, greed, selfishness, violence, cruelty, injustice, etc).