Motivation from Masters: Maya Angelou
July 9, 2009 by Allison Boyer
Filed under Jobs
If I can’t inspire you, maybe some successful writers can. Today’s Motivation from Masters post features Maya Angelou.
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
If for no other reason, Maya Angelou should inspire you because she’s such a spokesperson for the black community and for women of every race. Her work challenges what you already know about everything – even yourself. Some other quotes by her that I love:
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.”
“I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world’s variety and uniqueness.”
“All great achievements require time.”
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
“I believe that every person is born with talent.”
“Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.”
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”
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