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Maya Angelou
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MAYA ANGELOU

The Art of Fiction No. 119
Interviewed by George Plimpton
Issue 116, Fall 1990
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From the Interview
INTERVIEWER
Perhaps writing the autobiographies, finding out about yourself, would have made it much easier to go back.

ANGELOU
I know many think that writing sort of “clears the air.” It doesn’t do that at all. If you are going to write autobiography, don’t expect that it will clear anything up. It makes it more clear to you, but it doesn’t alleviate anything. You simply know it better, you have names for people.
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