 | BiographyType: Poet, Civil rights activist Born: April 4, 1928 Died: May 28, 2014 Marguerite Annie Johnson (Maya Angelou) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928, the second child of Bailey Johnson, a doorman and navy dietitian, and Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, a nurse and card dealer. Angelou's older brother, Bailey Jr., nicknamed Marguerite "Maya". Unable to pronounce her name because of a stutter, Bailey called her "My" for "My sister". |
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.
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