Maya Angelou's Drafts

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) believed that words are things. That they have the ability to act in the world—to heal us, to hurt us. If, during one of her festive parties, she heard a racial slur in her home, she would kindly escort the speaker to the door. “Not in my house,” she’d say. Hate-filled words toward any group of people, she thought, were poison.¹

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