Maya Angelou Questions

1.    A caged bird sings, because performing is a distraction. Performing keeps the mind numb from the longing. As it looks beyond the thin, metal bars holding it in its tiny heart breaks, but it sings another long note in hopes that one day it will perform for only itself. The caged bird sings, because singing is better than screaming.

3.   Dreams tell us things that even we may not know about our selves. When you stare in the mirror of your bedroom vanity, and watch your teeth fall out of your head... It means you're stressed. When you find a dead crow on your porch step... It means that you're afraid of change coming in your life. Listen to your dreams. Write them down and keep them in the back of your thoughts in your day to day life. Dreams could be key components in unlocking our destinies.

7.   My mother has claimed for as long as I can remember, and that is not very long, that I must have holes in my brain. Maya Angelou, the famous writer and poet, claimed to have something she referred to as "total recall". To her, this meant that she could clearly remember every memory she'd every experienced. I believe that I am on the opposite end of the memory capability spectrum.
     Sometimes it's so bad that I couldn't tell you what I had for breakfast yesterday. I'll forget watching full length films (which can be a perk in some instances, since I'm always surprised by the endings). My dad can call me while I'm out with friends to pick something up for him on my way home, but by the time I'm pulling into my garage it'd been an hour so of course I'd forgotten about the conversation entirely. I more often than not walk into a room and then immediately forget why I gone there.
     I don't know why I have these holes in my head. I've never done hard drugs or experienced any head trauma. I still manage to pull good grades in school despite it all; I've just learned to take really detailed notes to reference back on later. I guess I just have to accept that fact that every morning is going to include a frantic search for my keys, because I won't be able to remember where I sat them the night before.

8.   "There's a world of difference between truth and fact," is a quote from Maya Angelou. My interpretation of this links back to her belief in kindness for all people. I think that facts are cynical - they spit venom with every word - and they feel no remorse for telling you how it is. However, the truth holds compassion. The truth is reality, but explained in a way that is aimed at not causing harm.