Maya Angelou Quotes About Creativity

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

• I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Courage, Believe

• We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Kids, Years

• Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Use, Able

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

• Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Light, Important

• Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Thinking, Glory

  "At 80, Maya Angelou Reflects on a 'Glorious' Life". "Weekend Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. April 6, 2008.

• You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

• Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance. Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Passion, Creativity

  "Liveblogging Michael Jackson's funeral and memorial service" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2009.

• People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, People, Busy

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