Tag: Maya Angelou

• What We Learn From the Great Maya Angelou, #9.2025

  

  Dear Creative, My mind races with thoughts of current events, women’s rights in sports, and, yes, Black History Month. I hope you are well. My prayer is that this letter is received with the good kind of angst that fills my heart right now—the sort that sings, “We are not laboring in vain.” Prayers are…

  Really, Leah

  February 6, 2025

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• A BETTER DEFINITION of PASSION

  

  Ooowee, its entrance into my catalog of best-loved quotes is right on time for February’s posts on passion, productivity, and purpose. It is also, so Maya. She was a woman who made us want to look and keep looking at her as she sashayed words as gracefully as she swayed her hips. Oh, she was a…

  Really, Leah

  February 8, 2022

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