[The Monitor]: ... After so many different experiences in your life—early poverty, living in Europe and Africa, awards for writing, international recognition—what do you trust?
Maya Angelou: ... I have to translate that into the question "What do I know?" I can only trust what I know, and the only thing I trust is the love of God. That is all, and even though my knowledge and understanding of that sometimes wavers, that is the rock in my life. I believe I can do three things: I can cook. I can write. And I can drive. Given an assignment in any of those three areas, I believe I will carry out the assignment with grace and maybe even some flashes of brilliance. ... But the big trust is that I am a child of God. That is the most amazing thing to me, and [it] still brings me tears of joy. ...
From "The Voice of a Writer in Process." David Holmstrom, The Christian Science Monitor, October 20, 1993.
Copyright © 1993 by The Christian Science Monitor on behalf of Maya Angelou. Reprinted by permission of The Helen Brann Agency. Inc.
