In her slow, deep, and deliberate honeyed voice, writer and poet Maya Angelou says that she does not "think fast" at all. What this versatile woman is doing with her life, she says, is taking both the rough and sweet experiences and slowly, slowly mulling them over for meaning and worth.
"I appear to think fast," she says carefully while seated in a hotel room during an interview, "but I don't." She smiles, folds her hands, and laughs a long, low laugh, as if delight and explanation are one.
Her "slowness" is the art of her character. "I am in process," she says with command and conviction. It was perhaps for these two qualities that President Clinton chose her to read a specially written poem, "On the Pulse of Morning," at his inauguration.
