If I ended in defeat, at least I would be trying. And if you fail once, so what? …You fail, you get up and try again. But if you’re going to live, live at all, your business is trying. – Conversations with Maya Angelou, 1989 Quotes on Fear and FailureĢ1. I had obviously been invented by someone else -by a whole society -and I didn’t like their invention. I decided many years ago to invent myself. – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969Ģ0. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait. Life is going to give you just what you put in it. I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969ġ8. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969ġ7. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. You have this one chance to be yourself, and nobody else can be you but you. You must realize it’s not your brother’s life, it’s not your cousin’s life, it’s your life. ![]() – Playboy Interview, 1999 Quotes on Doing What You Loveġ5. I have the dream to write so well that a reader is 50 pages into a book of mine before he knows he’s reading. So what I have to do, and will spend the rest of my life doing, is trying to write the most graceful and gracious English ever. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, “Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.” – Time, 2013ġ3. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I will continue to write a little music and write some songs and some poetry and lectures. I hope to continue to write, and I want to write well. I just have to pray for the intelligence and courage to ask of it everything I want. Whatever the story, my mode of telling it is through writing. – Conversations With Maya Angelou, 1989ĩ. I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. I knew I was going in, so I decided I might as well try what John Killens suggested as the deepest end. Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. I’m even afraid of it – Feminist Interview, 2008 Quotes on Being a Writer and the Writer’s Lifeħ. I think I’ve been wonderfully blessed to be able to say something or write something, to live a certain way that makes life a little better for someone else. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me. What humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. That doesn’t mean that the poet has to stand on the soapbox and beat his chest unless that’s who he is. ![]() I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker -I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world. I’d agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. There are those who say that a poet should use her and his art to change the world. When I’m writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we’re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969Ģ. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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