![]() ![]() Just make sure that what you do say is the truth. That doesn’t mean tell everything you know. That it’s wise to be fair, and it’s unwise to lie. What did they teach you about good management? You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.īoth she and your grandmother ran businesses. ![]() One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. I realized that one isn’t born with courage. And she taught me by being courageous herself. ![]() Now 85 and a professor at Wake Forest University, she says her success as a storyteller stems from “seeing us as more alike than we are unalike”-that is, from finding universal themes. Maya Angelou worked as a cook, streetcar conductor, waitress, singer, dancer, editor, teacher, civil rights organizer, and actress before becoming one of America’s most beloved writers. ![]()
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