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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Maya Angelou

Inspiring, Writing, Creative

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.31, Bantam

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

Maya Angelou

Writing, Apology, Thinking

"Maya Angelou: 'I make no apologies for writing a cookbook'" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2011.

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

Maya Angelou

Writing, Ignorance, People

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.659, Modern Library

One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.

Maya Angelou

Writing, Serious, Problem

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Maya Angelou

Writing, Black And White, Thinking

"No surrender" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Maya Angelou

Morning, Writing, Heart

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

Maya Angelou

Song, Writing, Beats

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Maya Angelou

Book, Writing, Recipes

I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

Maya Angelou

Running, Writing, Ties

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

Maya Angelou

Writing, Lord, Angelou

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.

Maya Angelou

Writing, Who I Am, Darkness

Paris Review, Issue 116, 1990.